The true truth seeker follows no man, as a follower will only receive the memories of the truth from the one he is following, not truth itself.
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” - Nietzsche
The equation for friendship is: 1 + 1 = 3 Both people should get more out of the friendship than they would alone
All thoughts arise from desire. The desire to express, the desire to protect yourself from pain, the desire to cease boredom
“Desire, is a mental contract with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” - Naval Ravikant
An incredible amount of life’s great conundrums can be brought back to this interstice of Binary decisions. This emboldens Einstein’s quote “The greatest decision you will make in life is whether the universe is your friend or your enemy.”
Chaos and Order Pleasure and Pain Suffering and Happiness Hatred and Love
The Taoists really had this shit down man
The strongest binary forces can end up circling back in on itself. Like a strong tendency in one direction would also result in a strong tendency towards seemingly opposite behavior as well.
Happiness is found when you no longer chase desire and you are present.
Desire magnifies pleasure and pain because they are the 2 sides of the same coin.
The fool cannot perceive the world beyond what he already knows. He overestimates it. I was a fool, I thought others were stupid and that I had great ideas.. but the more I learned and realized what I don’t know I was able to grow.
I, like many others, believed my upbringing was unique. I believed that I was different and couldn’t be understood. As I’ve matured I’ve realized through philosophy and psychological models that what I experienced was totally and completely reasonable and even to be expected in my environment. I was just a puppet to what happened to me. I was genuinely powerless. The way that I thought about love, responsibility, masculinity, my entire lens for the world. The nihilism I experienced in elementary to middle school. The depression that I didn’t understand from my mother and her relationship with Heath(and later my group in middle school). We are always being conditioned and you can only truly move forward and make decisions based on your own experiences. When those experiences have led you to conclusions that might not be real, it’s not up to you. They are reasonable and expected in your environment. It is only through consciousness that you may actually begin to break this layer of powerlessness and drifting around in life that many of us feel. My environment, the way I thought it’s easy to understand. You just have to really pay attention to what’s happening and how that’s affecting you.