Welcoming madness. Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. Jung
What secrets does your subconscious hold from you? If only it had written them down. It only knows how to embed them in your muscle memory, accidentally spilling the beans with a twitch or a sigh.
Decentralization is a terrifyingly threatening idea. View quoted note β†’
Train your eyes and ears on secrets. View quoted note β†’
Self awareness. View quoted note β†’
I have 4,000 grandparents. View quoted note β†’
Make comedy out of tragedy. View quoted note β†’
Don’t. Think. View quoted note β†’
"Rose Kennedy once told me that good luck is something you make and bad luck is something you endure, a very wise observation indeed. People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility"
A lot of advantages can be gained simply by avoiding the standard paths to failure. Inversion is not the way we are taught to think. We are taught to identify what we want and explore things that will move us closer to our objective. However, by identifying and avoiding things that will ensure we don’t get what we want, we dramatically increase our odds of success. Often, we get so fixated on solving a problem in a particular way that we miss simpler, more elegant solutions. Inversion forces us to consider the opposite side of the equation. Instead of asking, β€œHow do I solve this problem?” inversion asks, β€œWhat would guarantee failure?” Instead of asking, β€œHow can I achieve this goal?” it asks, β€œWhat is preventing me from achieving it?” By inverting the question, we can gain insights that our normal thought patterns might miss. The next time you find yourself struggling, try inverting your thinking. Ask yourself how you could guarantee failure. The answers may surprise you and open up new avenues for possible solutions.