Thoughts

"From the belly of the whale, amplified earnestness is generally reqd."

"And sometimes..."

"Wherever your plateau is is just a plateau and not the end."

"I make the rules for my life. You get to make the rules for yours."

"Most kind, decent, normal people believe all sorts of things that were conceived in the bowels of hell and act as if they were true in their lives. Things for which they have no proof or evidence whatsoever, totally oblivious."

"If you're not willing to look beyond the door marked exit, you might never find your way out."

"The atonement is not sustitutionary. Esp. not substitutionary punishment. Otherwise, prodigal son, "It's cool. I just killed your brother [instead].""

"Two important times to love. 1. When you don't wanna 2. When they don't deserve it."

"Dissatisfaction is the root of everything good."

"Jesus was educated."

"You may not be afraid of death. But there is a whole lot more than death possible."

"'the pain is the evidence of growth'."

"'Blissfully unaware' is a reason."

"Scaffolding must be built before the construction can begin. And it must fit."

"I can't get it to you for free, but I can get it to you."

"I have enough to teach for centuries."

"To try to accomplish anything major without expert support is usually incredibly dangerous and incredibly stupid. To do it with expert support is just dangerous."

"Accepting the reality of them puts us in contact with the reality of us."

"I seldom seek crowds. When I do, it's to be alone."

"Love is a project. Not a discovery."

"Some are Bruce Hornsby. Some are the Range."

"It's why men write the love songs."

"Getting patient is both 1) Difficult and 2) Worthwhile"

"It's my job to give you everything I wish someone had given to me."

"I am noticing anger."

"I feel like screaming."

"Nonetheless: we need each other."

"Call it karma. Call it sin: Whatever it is, we humans are pretty dead set on making maximum misery for ourselves and others unless drastic measures are taken."

"Whomever shouts the loudest, his words are taken as truth."

"Someone must take the first step toward love. And to do that, they must do something irrational."

"You stop struggling when you stop struggling."

"Sometimes, disappointment can be the most profound motivation."

"'Insight becomes a hiding place' - AI"

"We all want to be loved unconditionally. How many of us are willing to love unconditionally?"

"Whatever you think is normal, I stopped a long time ago."

"Trillions of $ for bp pens and tang (??)"

"Weirdest enlightened 'master' ever..."

"Sometimes you need to decide to persist over the screaming protest of your nervous system."

"I don't live in your world."

"Whoa."

"As long as you love or hate me, we're good."

"Hitler said if you tell lies that are big enough, then everyone will believe them because they can't imagine telling a lie themselves that big."

"The difference between the great and successful and the unsuccessful is that the successful just assume that they're going to have to do lots of things that they don't want to do on the way to the thing that they want."

"All the wisdom you'll ever need is sitting there in whichever holy book you want to pick up which are all free on the internet right now."

"Ego wants to try it MY WAY first. Sometimes, for a lifetime."

"Either you're a conspiracy theorist or you believe that a small group having all the money and all the power is just an accident or coincidence."

"If you are too afraid of pain, you're gonna miss it all."

"It's not necessarily that hard to change things. It's just that most people are too scared to even try."

"Logic for the ego is idiocy for the spirit."

"The mythic or legendary stories of olde are simply questions of movement of energy."

"If nothing destroys, nothing can be born."

"All this time, I thought it was "party hearty"."

"Preemptive forgiveness."

"Forgiveness is the most difficult skill."

"It's important to figure out the difference between one who triggers our trauma and one who caused it."

"The truth destroys false foundations."

"Betrayal is standard."

"Has it occurred to you what God might have in store for you?"

"What a time to be alive! #turboquant"

"How many people in your life have spent years figuring out how to make you happy? Or successful? Or...anything?"

"The path is not whatever you think it is..."

"Unless they say otherwise (and often, even if they do), you can assume that everyone around you is frozen in abject terror pretty much constantly."

"Life, like a video game, has levels that get harder every year. The reason you think it's easy at the beginning is because you don't necessarily understand which game you're even playing."

"The paradox is, by 35 you know you know everything. At 50, you know you know nothing. Despite ostensibly having learned more."

"'Your hair smells nice', she said with scissors."

"Once you say 'no', everything stops."

"As long as you're doing the math about relationships, you probably will never really have one."

"Your mind will keep you imprisoned until you stop believing it."

"You think it's about trusting someone else. It's actually about trusting you."

""for every complex problem, there is an answer that is: clear, simple, and wrong""

"Are you sure?"

"Pain is the key to everything. The doorway."

"There isn't a single person you admire or respect where "it all went good"."

"It's like a steamroller slowly driving back and forth."

"Srsly?"

"Ofc Jesus gets crucified. Ofc the prophets get stoned. Literally or metaphorically. "People love that you are a seer, until you see them.""

"Hello Everything. I am Nothing."

"Hardware is the final moat."

"I trust you."

"People misunderstand omnipotence."

"This compound person thing is tough."

"She doesn't respond to what you call "truth". She responds to what she feels is the total energy in the system."

"Confronting absolute insanity and living to tell the tale."

"I didn't expect THAT."

"Unconditional love vs unconditional surrender"

"You cannot reach heaven until you are willing to leave hell."

"Relating is a discipline."

"The Golden Rule is a formula."

"God never wastes energy."

"What world do I even live in?"

"Were it up to me, I would not."

"It's curious how people think they will get justice on those who abuse children by obeying them, paying them, and giving them their energy."

"If I can convince you you are spinning upside-down when you aren't, I own your reality. If I own your reality, what influence do I have on your behavior within it? If you can't trust your own proprioception and vestibular system, what *do* you trust instead? And why? If I can't get you to pay attention to and trust your own senses, we're kind of stuck."

"Ignore people's interps. Read the source yourself."

"The smartest are the most easily brainwashed."

"The dreams come now. This is... new."

"The happy are not philosophers."

"Freeing the power of the imagination is a much greater feat than believed."

"Deep inside Me deep inside You."

"Everything is a choice."