Jesse L. Rowe - Life 2.0

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow.

- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more you understand certain thngs, the more you wish you didn't understand them.
- Frank Bukowski.

Whatever you feed will grow. Faith or fear. Worry or confidence. Doubt or belief.
It's your choice what grows.
- Unk.

In fact, a mature person does not fall in love, he rises in love. The word 'fall' is not the right one to use. Only immature people fall; they stumble and 'fall' down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. But now they are not, and they fall. He finds a woman, and he falls. She finds a man, and she falls. They were always ready to fall and creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity and strength of maturity to stand alone.
A mature person has the strength and maturity to stand alone. And when they give love, they give without any strings attached to it: they simply give. And when a mature person gives love, they feel grateful that you have accepted their love, not vice versa. They do not expect you to be thankful for their love, not at all. They do not need your thanks. Instead, they are thankful that you accepted their love.
And when two mature persons are in love, one of the most amazing paradoxes in life occur, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone; they are together so much so that they are almost one.Yet their oneness does not destroy their individuality. In fact, it enhances it: they become more individual.
Two mature people in love help each other become more free. There's no diplomacy or politics involved, no effort to dominate - how can you doninate a person you love? Think about it - domination is a form of hatred, anger, enmity. How can you want to dominate another who you love? You would love to see that person totally free, independent; you would love to give him more individuality, to see him become more of the wonderful being he is. That is why it is the biggest paradox: they are together so much so that they are almost one, but still in their oneness they remain individuals. Their individuality is not reduced or effaced, they have become more enhanced. They have enriched each other to the extent of increasing their individualities and freedom to be who they are.
Immature people falling in love destroys each other's freedom, create a bo***ge, a prison. Mature people in love help each other destroy all kinds of bo***ge, they help each other become free. And when love flows with freedom, there is beauty; when love flows with bo***ge, there is ugliness.

- Osho.

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Anthony Bourdain said: "Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride."

Ithaca (The Meaning of Life)

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the angry Poseidon -- do not fear them:
You will never find such as these on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the fierce Poseidon you will never encounter,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your soul does not set them up before you.
Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many, when,
with such pleasure, with such joy
you will enter ports seen for the first time;
stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensual perfumes of all kinds,
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
visit many Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from scholars.
Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
and to anchor at the island when you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.
Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would have never set out on the road.
She has nothing more to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

--Constantine P. Cavafy

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Some people can ignore their obligations for weeks. But not you. Some people let opportunity pass for lack of trying. But not you. Some people are content to wade through confusion and disorganization to finish every minor task. But not you. Some people are okay to waste their precious time on endless distractions. But not you. Some people don't address their issues. But not you. You give a damn. You want to fu***ng do better. That's what makes you different.

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Anytime in my life when I have managed to go from a vision to a reality, the vision has not been a plan but a practice.

In other words, what matters is not having a vision, but rather making a habit of returning to and revising the vision. For the big things in my life, I'm always coming back to them week after week—sometimes day after day. As new information arrives, the vision gets updated. The dream becomes more crystallized over time. It's a habit of thinking about where you want to go with an ever-increasing degree of clarity.

You do not need a vision, you need the practice of envisioning.

- James Clear.

What is a Stoic?

"A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking."
- Nassim Taleb.

There's a belief that fighting brings justice. That the fire of anger can pave the way to fairness.
It's a false belief.
- JLR.