ten recent thoughts

1. Passive reading is not learning.

2. Resist the mind’s default of wanting to do easy things. (Easy is often greasy + unhealthy.)

3. Constraints create the conditions for freedom.

4. “Be grateful 1,000 times a day”. – Wahe Takeda

5. Peace of mind… is the true cure. And the holy grail.

6. Circumstances > thoughts > emotions > actions > our life. To change our life, we change our thoughts about our circumstances (since we often can’t change our circumstances).

7. Fill your life with the things that make you happy.

8. Be kind about the things you say about yourself to yourself.

9. To know yourself, keep failing.

10. We’re more than good enough – we are enough. =)

I like today.

It’s wonderful. This table I’m sitting at. This laptop I’m typing on. This view of the trees outside my apartment. My two cats sleeping on the couch. The fan whirling above my head. My fingers moving across this keyboard. The slightly overcast sky today. I’m happy to be where I am, and a little more.

Tomorrow might never come, and yesterday is over. Today is all I have. All the cliches in the world are true.

It’s wonderful to be here today.

make a mess of life

Learning to tear down my own walls, disintegrate, reintegrate, learning to become child-like again, to play, to be messy, creative, uninhibited, to live without rules, to be fully myself, truly myself, to be honest, to roll through this world without guilt, to make things and break things and dream up things and fail at things, to live, to simply live… in this mess that we call life.