WORDS OF WISDOM

“Money is easy to give to people who are emotionally taxing because there is no effort behind it. You don’t have to involve yourself; you just give an object in exchange for them to remain where they are. Conversations take effort. Conversations and talking with someone may be painful. Money is payment so people can be emotionally distant.”

“If you suddenly become lost who will find you? Who do you want to be found by?”

“If one is going to change their life for the better how do we approach this task? Do we will change into existence through action? Or do we frame our existence for change and then will it?”

“If you build a home on sand and if the wind blows, and the house sinks, do not blame the wind. If you build a house on rock and the wind blows, and the home falls, do not blame the rock.”

“Sometimes the world does not make sense. Chaos and absurdity are real. You can try to prepare for everything or accept that control is an illusion.”

“The search for meaning is inherently in conflict with the actual lack of meaning. The truth is that meaning is what you attach to that word, while at the same time there is no grand meaning.”

“Meaning and purpose do not find you. You find it. There is not a cosmic ray that bursts from the heavens to bestow meaning on you. Meaning and purpose come from action and through action will it be found.”

“Through pain and discomfort can we find purpose if we choose to learn from it.”

“Once you’ve fallen down the proverbial well, either financially or mentally, it is much easier to devise how you are going to escape the well when you’ve hit bottom rather than in free fall.”

“Always step forward one foot over another without looking over your shoulder for if you do, you will find invisible demons ready to haunt you.”

“There is something out there that will always test us, our integrity, and our perseverance. Your struggles now shadow the joys you have experienced. It is pain we remember far too often. The good times we’ve had seem only reserved for conversations with others rather than during personal reflection.”

“It’s my contention that our brains are assholes. The scumbag brain. It is a sly bullshitter and self-proclaimed con artist. I am not my brain but I am of it.”

“My troubles are proportional to the effort that I spend thinking about them in worry. Misplacing my keys before work has been known to almost kill me. I’m sure my work doesn’t miss me that much.”

“Fear is a story we tell ourselves about something that may not happen.”

“Choose the past and you never live for today. Choose the future and you will never reach it. Choose the present and you have the ability to change the world.”

“Fear not the future but the lack of one. Do not fear the pain we endure now, but what comes when we cease to feel it evermore. Never fear experience but the lack thereof.”

“It’s a problem when someone plays video games all day. From morning to night. You’re investing your time and money in something that isn’t real. Like a dream, that data can disappear with a bad backup and power outage.”

“Complexity means there is more room for failure and things to go wrong. There are limits to how complex something can be.”