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• Invert!: Invert negativity. Invert stasis. Invert despair. Invert the good, with the better. Invert heaven, and walk with peace, now. Invert the whole panjandrum.
• Assorted: Cultivate the courage to negotiate explicitly, and divest from unjustified expectations. Create a structure that you can surrender to. Absence of risk, is risky - you want responsible danger, predictable uncertainty. Apply clarifying restatements to indirect requests. Not sure - hold things loosely, as it’s uncertain.
• Tone: “I would like X” (positive, loose) > “I need X” (fearing an implied threat, strict).
• Sow: Sow your intentions, virtue, and process. Always iterate chiefly on your inputs, yet do digest the previous crop, for new seeds and novel feedback. Return to inputs
• Discriminate: Reality, discriminates. Discriminate: what you’re becoming, begetting.
• Hope: You’re fucked, when you don’t realize you’re fucked. When you realize you’re fucked, you’re no longer fucked. There’s hope. Be open to hope, it’s your antidote.
• Sacrificial love, to live as an individual: Do not let an external, negative environment, dictate your life, and inner life. Sacrificial love heals. Giving up the good, for the greater good. However don’t be another’s sacrifice, as what entities do not resonate with, they will seek to destabilize, and destroy. Guard against your destabilization and destruction. Expect the town’s crazy man to continue to verbally accost you, and the local crook, to continue to rob you. It’s per their present nature, and has nothing to do with you. Likewise, it’s your nature, to live out hope. To not let false idols dampen the beauty that you see, as an individual. Persistent.
• Train: You train not for the good days, but for the bad days. You evolve, by removing false limitations, not by going further. You can be Anthony Bourdain, and be a 3 star chef with lots of success. He went very far, yet he was still trapped within his box, and it crushed him. He never trained on how to escape, and expand the box, to get some breathing room, and fresh air. You are a product of the box that you live in. You built that box by hand, to the depths of your questions and introspection. And no matter how exquisitely, tidy, and disaster-proof it’s construction, it’s always going to be impinging. Leave the box.

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• A beautiful cathedral, within the shantiest of towns: The beauty of creation shines through when we get out of the way of our own cognitive projections. When you arrive at a place where you’re able to contrast the objects of your perception, not with your understanding of causality and the laws of physics, but with the infinite void of nothingness, then all of creation becomes bright, and shining, and miraculous. If you think miracles are just about nonstandard empirical phenomena, then you’re anchored at the wrong point. The standard phenomena are just as miraculous as the non-standard phenomena. And it speaks to the pervasive and stultifying effects of convention, that so many of us seem to have forgotten that this is so.