The numbers are there as these were captured on paper, there’s no significance or order sorting yet. These are those I’ve had so far in my journey as a human with chronic pain and otherwise all-around black sheep of black sheep. My goal is to expose you to some of these and get your reactions; use the # as reference in your comments.
· The tools we make should never rule us. Seek to guide us via AI; I shall accept.
· You must act as you wish to be treated.
· Life lives on life. Get over it. Everything is consumed in this life.
· There’s far too little time for persistent grasping to petty beliefs and things.
· Love conquers all.
· Humans are always more resilient than they believe.
· Pain is a physical and mental reaction to injuries, birth defects, and unknown causes. It can range from mild irritation to intense discomfort, and is a normal response of our body's nervous system.
· Enlightenment is not necessarily blissful.
· Awakening always hurts.
· Major life traumas tend to shatter defenses against needed change of character & behavior. The trauma severity increases the change likelihood in most cases (both in possibility and magnitude of change).
· Being a hero mostly sucks. (their experience)
· Realism is not practiced due to difficulty. (re: the art of jujitsu) Few live in reality completely.
· Humans possess a near infinite number of ways to distract themselves. It is impressive but…
· Women are complicated; they gaslight one another with irrational behaviors hard to avoid. It is experience advising its best left to women themselves to unwind. Involvement is unwise on specific opposite sex gender behaviors. Some things are better not touched.
· Our size in the universe matters at our scale ONLY. Any other comparisons are non sequitur and silly. They are fun, but silly.
· Your ability to communicate clearly possesses great power. Learning how to write and command language deftly contains within it the strength of influencing others in positive ways (sometimes, hopefully) How you leverage the pen expresses your soul.
· Efficient prose conveying deep meaning is beautiful.
· The female form is my ideal from evolution today, in form. From the sheer beauty of gentle scallops and curves, second to the capacity to reproduce other humans.
· Craftsmen executing work as well as it can be accomplished is an act of love and commitment. Every time. When no one is looking. I live/am this.
· Dogs are demonstrably better friends than humans could be. Unconditional love, in infinite amounts of expressed love, is comparable only to a spouse or child. (even then…)
· You and I are not important.
At first, you can be not as important, so as to avoid trauma with the idea.· Most things in life can be related to drumming, as in a rock band.
It looks easy enough until attempted once properly.· Let go of any notion you know what you are doing. It makes things easier; I promise. Take a deep breath, because the next one’s a doozy.
· No one person knows fully what's going on. All attempts to understand everything ‘fully’ are futile. The moment you think you understand, it changes. Adopt ambiguity.
· If you have a rare disorder with unknown origin, it will be you alone who finds answers. Get used to it; humans are complicated and complex and no one will dedicate the time or the passion that you can give it. If an answer exists, you can find it. I promise earnest searching works, as well as it can.
· Genuine dancing is a gift to the human soul and a release for the heart. Joy w/movement
· Attitude and intention - gratitude and genuine help - are second only to love.
· Criticizing without corrective follow through is cowardly, in the sense you choose to judge without exercising any positive action toward mitigation. If you're gonna gripe, fix it.
· Giving from the heart is orders of magnitude better than getting
· Our biggest challenge is in remembering our goals after we have been emotionally triggered and the small programs attached to them begin to run. How do you Ctrl-X your autorun.bat file? It’s all too easy to remember & intervene, but will you? No one can intervene all the time; there are too many running programs.
· Chronic pain is not conducive to casual social relations. There are few who can be exposed to the idea of someone having pain that doesn’t go away and not run away (I can’t deal with that). It is…
· Learning to accept reality; what is - can be the hardest step toward peace. Trust me, t-shirt…
· Perception shapes reality, especially in a pain storm. How you talk inwardly, and your approach toward the pain can be as strong as opioids in its pain reduction (and sadly stress increases).
· Being open about feelings and being vulnerable is true strength. It takes immense courage and moxy to be ‘real’. And to be real, a price is paid for this idiosyncratic choice, for culture likes conformity.
· The idea of success or failure in life is an understandable mistake. The concept does not apply to human life. Was your life lived well? The only answer comes from within you, and no judge concurs. Regardless of the bucket of suck you occupy, you can be at peace with yourself and ‘happy’ much of the time.
· Nature is staggeringly beautiful, complex, deep in diverse systems, sophisticated, adaptable, and full of ideas to make new things, all at once. She is teacher.
· No one is keeping score. How your ‘prison guard’ aspect of ‘self’ treats you, is in your control. You can relax with the goosestepping, nagging voice because it doesn’t matter in the end. Be kind to yourself.
· Every experience and memory are an inference. Inference of our senses and our memories of the experiences we’ve had before. Humility is warranted given the basis of our ‘facts’ and ‘laws’. The are all inferences.
· Enjoying the struggle of learning a new skill is the greatest gift you can bestow upon yourself. It removes the ‘f’it option everyone gives themselves when they get frustrated. It adds laughter and humor to the struggle to develop muscle memory.
· Until you love yourself, you can't fully love others.
· Looking to the future once in a while is valuable, but setting a plan and following it puts miles behind you in progress compared to wishful thinking.
· In a world of complexity, simplicity brings clarity and focus.
· Your life is accurately equated to a novel. Each chapter, each character, is recorded by you through your activity and beliefs. Fighting a chapter ending, or grasping to a character that is gone, is foolish and it will feel so a decade after the struggle.
· Happiness is found in the present moment. The past is gone, and the future is uncertain. Embrace the now.
· Silence speaks volumes. Sometimes, what is left unsaid is just as important as what is said.
· Seek understanding, but also seek balance and tranquility. In the end, you and I know nothing.
· Curiosity fuels the soul. Never stop asking questions or seeking new knowledge.
· Change, death and taxes are the only constants. Memento mori.
· Humility opens doors. Pride closes them. Approach life with a humble heart.
· Letting go is liberating. Holding on to grudges or past pain only weighs you down. Release and move forward.
· Reality is insanely complex. Reduction attempts are economical, but deeply flawed due to poor compression, bias, motive or delusion. Make the attempt to meet reality in it’s insanely complex house, and have a chat. Jaw jack. All that; reality is perfect just as it is. Your conflicts with reality bring pain through grasping to a deluded belief of ‘should’.
· You are insanely complex. Take care of your meta-macro system and give it tender loving care.
· Knowledge is power, but inaccessible without wise discernment. Wisdom is peace. Seek understanding, seek balance and seek tranquility. If confused, begin with Buddhism. It’s compatible with your current take on religion and works every time its applied earnestly.
· Kindness costs nothing but means everything. Small acts of kindness positively ripple beyond your sight.
· Your mind is a garden; your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.
· Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. It frees you from the chains of resentment and bitterness.
· The journey is the destination. Enjoy the process of journeying; don’t wait for the end goal to enjoy. The meaning of life is found in enjoying this moment, along the journey. Where we’re going is important for direction, it means nothing. The journey is where the meaning is found.
· There is beauty in imperfection. Embrace your flaws; they make you uniquely you. We are all made from the collection of f’ups and recovered catastrophic errors we’ve lived through. You are beautiful.
· The most radical idea I believe is I selected this life as an experience to gain knowledge as a spirit otherwise impossible elsewhere. I bought a ticket. Signed the contract. It’s mine. Think about it…
· Compassion is the highest form of intelligence. It connects and defines us with our humanity and to each other, unconditionally.
· All our beliefs are as accurate to reality are as GPT3 was. Think about that for a second. Your beliefs are as accurate as a prediction machine. That’s one small reason to defer ‘holy’ beliefs; because what do you know?