Unpacking, old books, old wisdoms.
Collections of words of meaning jotted down and quickly forgotten...
Here it is folks:
The ever-expanding Guide to Happiness and Well-adjustedness:
"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -Hamlet,
A profound truth, if one can remember this, nothing will ever go wrong again. This is really all you ever need to know. You can stop here and be happy. Down right Taoist if you ask me.
"If your everyday seems poor don't blame it; blame yourself. Admit that you are not enough of a poet to call forth it's riches; because for the poet there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place."-Rilke
ouch. now boredom and discontent have no excuse
"Happiness is foolishness but sorrow is inexcusable."- Anais Nin
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-FDR
the person who first lives by this could rule the world or perform miracles
"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."-Anais Nin
I can vouch for this one
" I have no money
No resources
No hopes
I am the happiest man alive."-Henry Miller
funny how that works
"Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself" -The Little Prince
"Take your life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."-Erica Jong
"In every work of genius we find our own rejected thoughts."
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"If it doesn't make sense change your perception."- Robert Anton Wilson
if it contradicts you/upsets you, change your perception.
"You make the grass green, it's a coincidence of interaction."- Robert Anton Wilson
"You say 'God', I say 'I don't know'. We say the same thing, God is the unknown. God is the word used to put a stop to the infinite regression, rather than define it. This is where the trouble occures."-Me
ha ha , you were pondering it until you saw that it has not received the validity seal of a publisher...
"the distaste for life is the product of a idle mind."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists on adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince"For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been'..."-Whitter, Maud Muller
"Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time."
"The greatest immorality is an irrevisable belief system"
-Robert Anton Wilson
"Think Global, Buy local"
When we buy inexpensive imported goods we are participating in exploiting near-slave laborers in human rights-violating third-world countries imported across oceans at the cost of truly millions of gallons of fossil fuels. It just isn't responsible, either for the people or the environment. You must include the distance that your goods traveled in your carbon footprint.
And there you have it. I have discovered such truths in my short stint on this planet, yet like most good humans, I have yet to truly know them and apply them. Knowing them consciously allows for the ability to reasonably debate and discuss, and sound quite healthy and temporarily feel like a sane and reasonable
hominid, yet until the subconscious accepts them as truths they have little effect. The keys to peace of mind and spirit are readily available, dangling in front me, taunting me. (and now they may taunt you) Someday they shall unlock the subconscious and all will be well. I fear this may occur in a later evolutionary stage of humanity.
Yet how will progression occur when our neurosis is held as sacred and considered to be our defining human trait?
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