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This Thatched Hut

Freedom in dispassion

Things come to me and it’s impossible to manage them all.

Every time I think something is important, and that I must “file it away” — hours later, it’s gone with the wind — just to leave me alone in the desert, once again.

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Fantastic And Fictional

Perfect wisdom

I’ve never heard a satisfying definition of love until hearing Charles Eisenstein describe it as the expansion of self to include another, or “the other” — and the opposite of fear.

At the end of the day, love is just a word that represents an idea.

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The Running Theme

Effortless mastery

There’s an inexplicable feeling that continues to arise in my life. A running theme.

And I’m not quite sure how to explain it.

Nor do I think explaining it to myself or another would do any good.

Trying to relay a message often distorts it.

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Sharp

Dissecting the moment

Why waste a moment when you cannot know where it will lead?

This statement is made in response to two judgements: one that considers not “using” the moment as a waste — and one that says this moment will not lead where I want to go.

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Splitting Atoms

On exiting your mind

The thing is done for something.

The truth lies in what this something really is, versus what you believe it to be.

The two must be contrasted.

If you tell me it’s to get somewhere, I will tell you it’s to satisfy the need to get somewhere.

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Image Optics

The truth about self-image

Perhaps the most valuable side effect of pursuing self-mastery is that you quite literally begin to see that which others do not.

Having been where another is, and having transcended it by way of understanding, one is able to understand the other with brilliance.

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What Is Your Intention?

On true motives

The moth don’t care when he sees the flame
He might get burned, but he’s in the game
And once he’s in, he can’t go back
He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black

The moth don’t care if the flame is real
‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal
And nothing fuels a good flirtation
Like need and anger and desperation

No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real

The Moth & The Flame – Les Deux Love Orchestra

What is your intention?

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Mr. Rubik’s

Piecing together the puzzle of mind

An incessant buzzing.

Trite nonsense, spinning, and weaving,

Identified as foe rather than friend, in its 4am callousness.

Two hours of sleep yesterday, four hours of sleep only now.

To awaken to such irrelevance: it almost seemed malicious.

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The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

Human truths

The world, and its people, are ignorant.

Your family and friends, in truth, only care about themselves.

They will hide from this truth by employing a multitude of excuses and justifications, in attempts to appear virtuous or “good”.

But at the end of the day, virtually everything done is born of ego.

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The Game You’ve Been Duped Into Playing

Lead astray

Human beings are silly creatures.

All too often we assign value to the valueless, and to a surprising degree, the detrimental.

Like children, we see another’s desire for something, and immediately react in a knee-jerk like fashion, “deciding” we want it for ourselves.

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