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.
- Fruit reveals the root.
You don’t need to be in the same category to have equal value. - If you cannot change it, it is not your problem.
- Wages increase with complementation until full substitution.—Qwern
- The bottom is never the bottom.
- With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.—Von Neumann
- Learn to accept rejection.
- Good conversation is the shared construction of meaning, where what is said builds on what came before.
- Without constructs, you will unravel few mysteries. Without knowledge of the mysteries, your constructs will fail. These pursuits are what make us, but without comfort, you will lack the strength to sustain either.—Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild Built
- Trying to even a loss often lends to more loss.
- Claiming an attribute is favoring perception over being.
- Finish your work and leave.
- What would you do if you knew you would not fail?
- You can choose to say yes, or no. Choosing yes leads to adventure. Choosing no is safe.
- The mind that is occupied is missing the present.
- Substitute attention for preparation.
- The more space you have, the more you’ll fill it up.
- Learn to do things alone.
- Being yourself is worth it, but don’t expect it is going to be easy or free.
- Art is the mother of religion.
- Everything looks intentional when you’re an inexperienced imbecile.
- Close enough is perfect.
- Everything is high risk, if you’re a coward.
- Have you considered just not doing it?
- Don’t contradict, unless you want to fight.
- Facts are about what is, truth is about feeling.
- Puppets require strings.
- Sometime you got to roll the hard six.
- Safe challenge is oxymoronic.
- At some point, you have to shut-up and do something.
- A simulation of insight is not insight.
- Solve only what earns solving.
- Most people don’t respond to what you say, but how it makes them feel about themselves.
- We don’t all attend the same bitch conference.
To be creative you’ve got to be unsociable and tight-assed.—Bob Dylan - If it doesn’t work in the fire, it doesn’t work.—Daniel Ingram
- Weirdness is a crucible.
- Disruption clarifies, but it does not replace encounter.
- Some arenas are for training, other are for competing.
- Exercise, eat well, challenge your brain and spend time with people.
- Walk faster, age slower.
Sometimes, late in life, - God makes a minister out of a scoundrel, because it’s the only way to reach the other scoundrels.
- Simple answers are a way for us to feel in control.
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