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.
- Success contains the seeds of its own destruction. It breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
- Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.—Elie Wiesel
- People never die wishing they’d bought more stuff.
- Totalitarianism is using your agency to destroy your own agency.
- Convoluted language is a claim of authority.
- Liberal in principle, skeptical on specifics and conservative on boundaries.
- Don’t draw a black ball from the urn of invention.
- The most important factors for survival are resilience and flexibility.
- If it’s not growing, it’s dead.
- Give up all desire for control over oneself and others and freely submit.
- Do not let the world deafen you with its noise.
- Who are your mystics?
- What makes relationships complex is when one (or more) of the people are trying to control or change the others.
- Bravado is a form of insecurity.
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