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Almost everyone can bite off more than they can chew, but greed is unappetizing. Even being altruistically helpful can be excessive. The most grotesque thing is a mouth that spills out its contents. Bite-sized portions are a good practice in every field, including faith and joy.
Power over you will bring you to your knees. Power over others will bring others to their knees. If you have to choose one, take the latter. There is nothing worse than a poverty-stricken body with the mind of a philosopher royal. Pay your debt before saving the world.
Suppose you observe the universe closely - the daffodil, the hummingbird, and the ice-capped mountains of Lake Tahoe, you will realize that it gives zero damns about your gnawing pain. You have lived well only if you locate yourself outside of your tiny little existence.
When in doubt, rely on science, especially on quantum science that borrows from none of the Newtonian science rules. Small things behave very differently to big things. When you are sure of anything at all, please walk to the nearest shaman and exorcise your inner demons.
The evilest people, the most calcified narcissists, are certain there is only one correct answer. The fact is that everything is random, and nothing makes sense, and anything can happen at any time. It is the wisest people know that doubt is an ally.
Choose friends wisely, love them dearly, like one loves a child’s bad jokes, and then let them go when they remember you only as you were when you first met them. There is nothing more dangerous than loving people who have frozen your growth in time. Endings are necessary.
Commit to healthy relationships to a point where someone has to change a city to get rid of you or death gets to them first. Don’t let go of these special people who added to your life in some way until they do. Life is long, and there is shame in desperation.
There is nothing worse than men’s war on women, it is unmistakably worse than any other war in history. Protest in whatever small way you can. Nothing deters oppression more than the certainty of punishment in equal measure.
Try to follow the sun. Rise with it and rest with it. It will kill you if you disrespect it, and it will nurture you if you read the room it bathes in. Be intense like its noon for things like passion, be mellow in the evenings like the suffering you endure for no apparent gain.
Try to be unafraid of these three things: tears, truth, and technology. But be most afraid of tears; truth and technology, just as much. It is easy for anything that holds the essence of power, also to consume you.
If you must be addicted to something in the course of a lifetime, choose anything but hard drugs and mean people. Both will leave you lacking.
If you must be attached to something in the course of a lifetime, choose children and books. They will never disappoint you because almost every day and page will have one thing to leave you amused.
Life is a traveling circus; you don’t want the lion to rage into a crowd during an act, and you don’t wish to the trapeze artist falling face down and snapping her neck backward. Kids and books both allow you to escape the freak eventualities of the circus you must witness.
It is important to desire improvement. You may fail at your career goals. You may not even remember who you wanted to be when you were a child. You may never recover from death, or from racism and xenophobia. Still, you must simply try.
One way to never fail at leaving the world better is to love something or someone well enough.
