Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here’s this month’s installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file.
- All great change comes from community and from individuals learning what is within their individual and collective power.
- Choose in your best interest. Forgive yourself for the past. Everyday, create your future self and some moments of peace.
- Wear your Halloween costume on a different day.
- Prediction is less important than adaptability.
- The most important question: what can I learn from this?
- In the sublime war of man against Reality man has but one weapon, the imagination.
- A beautiful thing is never perfect.
- You can’t fight ideas with bullets.
- Ignorance of some topics is wisdom.
- Conflict can help people connect, but many people engage in: score keeping, deflection, gaslighting, or defensiveness.
- Understand and express what you want.
- Conflict is made worse when we fight (attack), flight (leave), freeze (play dead), or fawn (appease/people people) because information cannot be processed. Pause the discussion if any of these are happening.
- Always three options: accept, reframe or reject.
- Monetize your problems.
- Complacency breeds crisis. Hustle breeds abundance.
- The normal consists of a null set which nobody and nothing really fits.
- Don’t yuck the yums of others.
- The ear catches what the eye misses.
- If your life is a mess, your work is a mess.
- Debts to be paid: once for a simple trade, twice for free-given aid, and thrice for the insult made.
- Risk cannot be destroyed, it can only be shifted through time and redistributed in form.—Christopher Cole
- I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.—Feynman
- Vanity is the quicksand of reason.—George Sand
- Sometimes you can be done even if you’re not finished.
- The purpose of thinking is so our though to die instead of us.—Alfred North Whitehead
- There is always something that can’t be fixed.
- Better to live with the devil than with an angry woman.
- Frustration often precedes desire.
- Coopted language is a tool of oppression.
- You are not responsible for the emotions of others.
- The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.—Ludwig Borne
- Talking often runs way ahead of the doing.
- In life, and in the circus, you need to gasp.
- Celebrate other people’s wins.
- A tragedy rarely ends with the principals.
- If it’s your decision, it’s design; if not, it’s a requirement.—Alistair Cockburn
- A rule of thumb: one needs to wait a minimum of 12 to 15 seconds for young children to respond to a question or a command.
- If you’re playing defense, you’re losing.
- …everything that lives, not vegetative life alone, emerges from darkness and, however strong its natural tendency to thrust itself into the light, it nevertheless needs the security of darkness to grow at all.—Hannah Arendt
- Speak less, to fewer people and less often.
- Lend freely, against good collateral, at a penalty rate.
- A smart person learns from their mistakes, and a wise person learns from other people’s mistakes.
- Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you.—Robert McKee.
- Being vulnerable is hard, but it’s the only way for us to more fully understand what we need to explain.
- Speak your truth and live with the consequences.
- All is fair if you predeclare.
- Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king. And a king ain’t satisfied till he rules everything.—Bruce Springstein
- Who you are is not your fault, but it is your responsibility.
- What we hate most in others is usually what we hate most in ourselves.
- Real confidence looks like humility. You no longer need to advertise your value because it comes from a place that does not require the validation of others.
- True adventure rarely comes freshly scrubbed. Sometimes, you gotta get your hands dirty.
- Personal growth implies outgrowing some relationships too.
- Fortune favors the prepared mind.—Louis Pasteur
- Don’t water dead plants.
- Honor your needs and limits.
- When someone says they don’t fit in, they’re probably looking to fit in, somewhere.
- The personal is more important than the perfect.
- You can not calm the storm. You can only calm yourself until the storm has passed.
- Bow down before the one you serve, you’re going to get what you deserve.—Trent Reznor
- The world is full of lonely people waiting to make the first move.
- Everything you feed grows.
- Wait until the outcome is clear, and then wait some more.
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