1 like = 1 Yeerkian proverb, aphorism, self-help tip or penetrating insight

1. If you want to improve yourself, it will be by doing the difficult thing

2. Instead of imagining yr ex 'not thinking abt you', imagine them (if you imagine them at all) thinking of you fondly

3. Thinking fondly of friends and family is very good for you

4. Enter into all conversations with opposite sex bold, open, playful and innocent

5. Nothing evil can be done with perfect innocence

6. Small, incremental thoughts of forgiveness add up and make you kind and strong

7. You'll always achieve more by trying than by being too scared to start

8. You will find that what starts as 'trying' soon just becomes 'doing'

9. You can make the women in your life very happy by being both kind and competent

10. Never 'debate' yr gf or attempt to foist upon her some elaborate intellectual or philosophical theory. You should argue, however

11. If yr in a social situation and everyone is at an impasse, spontaneously decide what to do- don't ask what everyone thinks of the idea, just do it! Everyone will be grateful

12. Its liberating to understand one's failures without remaining identified with them

13. Create domestic peace by noticing when you're abt to do something inconsiderate and then refraining

14. Everything is trying to teach you something, everything is a portion of yr responsibility, everything seeks recognition

15. The 'eternal' of 'eternal' life is horizontal, not vertical

16. Women are passionate abt social justice but social justice isn't passionate abt anything, including women

17. Whenever you can, sacrifice

18. Sacrifice is the act of giving which blends oneself with what receives the gift

19. Develop as much affection as you can, for as much as you can

20. Prayer develops the facility for true self-recognition, which is simultaneous recognition of and by divinity

21. True self-recognition is the cure for both conformity and insecurity, which are both diseases of recognition (or lack thereof)

22. Emotions attach themselves to the nearest visible metaphor

23. True love lives very consciously in spite (not denial) of flaws

24. Discipline your hatreds that they inform you without burning you

25. Babel could be built, but only when it doesn't need to be

26. Dismay, anger and annoyance are perfect responses to bad situations

27. 'All lives matter'. Said defensively, a denial. Said with perfect innocence, a true vision of justice

28. The means of production are holy