Never ever think about anything else when you should be thinking about incentives. I thought I understood this was everything but I realized it was even more important than I originally thought. - Charlie Munger
How all life works, from single cells to multicellular.
"One of the hardest but most important practices: Realize that you are not the stuff inside your head. You are the awareness that decides what to do with the stuff inside your head. The ability to choose which thoughts to pursue and which to leave behind is key to everything."
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
you are always working against your ego, once you abandon it life unfolds.
will i ever be anything in your eyes, a hero or a devil?
kiwi.
focus is a hard thing, number one to do it, number two for all the sacrifice and hate you'll receive for continually using it.
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves in spring. I love the blue sky. I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them. Yet from habit one's heart prizes them.”
“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”
Sometimes I feel like a bad person. Where it seems demons are chasing after you. You can't escape. Eventually getting ahold of you, feeling possessed by evil thoughts. Then you realize how bad you really are because you are trying to get back to good.
