Pinnedlightit’s not that one has unbreakable willpower; it’s just that one has genuinely lost the appetite for pleasure and the repulsiveness from discomfort. one’s existence has become so light that the momentum it carries no longer derives so much from its mass but from its speed— lightness a free—spirit; it…Freedom1 min readFreedom1 min read
Pinnedi don’t like punishment and rewardbecause it’s as if people are “bad” and somehow has to be told; conditioned to; even rewarded for or punished for (not) doing “good”. i believe that humans have an inherent tendency for good — that if we think an act is truly good, then it has to be the…Education2 min readEducation2 min read
Pinnedmoral retirementi more and more come to think that every single person is somewhere along their own journey; in that i don’t really have the right to judge where they are let alone where they should be. that when i see random people doing random thing i come to see it…Personal Development1 min readPersonal Development1 min read
1 day agolight floatsdoesn’t rest (at least for too long.) light lives through (not in.) light gives, not by showing, but by passing. light hugs, but lets things be itself — — keeping things true, to itself. O, my Fellowship of Light! stay afloat.Spirituality1 min readSpirituality1 min read
1 day agothe markof lightness is the unneeding of justification; the loss of appetite in acknowledgement; the standing, on its own, by itself — for itself — for it is nothing but empty. light. like a leaf fully, presently, flowing through the washing of the wind unresisting, but elegantly dancing, through it all …Mindfulness1 min readMindfulness1 min read
2 days agowhat it means to be compassionate with yourselfthe thing about being “compassionate” with —to “suffer with”— myself is that it, first, takes noticing what really is it am i feeling. yet when i probe into it, more often than not, i just can’t find anything. as if the feeling had been… a mere illusion, all along. i’m…Compassion3 min readCompassion3 min read
2 days agoperhaps it’s not so much looking for an answerthan simply readying one’s self to accept the answer— —that has always been there.Philosophy1 min readPhilosophy1 min read
2 days ago“O, my grim reaper!come, at once!” He came; and he whispers, his italic tongue dancing, truthfully: Yes, yes. Indeed, if life is meaningless, why do you not— —just die? I do not know. Half curious. Half—scared. You can, simply, jump off the balcony —and it would not make any difference. I pause— Verily. …Death1 min readDeath1 min read
3 days ago“Choice and presence,— life is nothing but,” thinks Charlotte. “And the byproducts — ” she continues, “Consciousness. Love. Humanity. “Indeed, “Life — itself.”Mindfulness1 min readMindfulness1 min read
4 days agounregrettablyit’s as if love is something greater than the sum of its parts. love contains many things — from lust to care to company to affirmation to boredom — yet the quirky thing is if one were to break down all of those parts and try to pursue one by…Love2 min readLove2 min read
