O arjuna, in the light, in the darkness, in life or in nothingness, i reside in every form.

very hard not to get caught up in status games and mimetic rivalry. no easy solution. just gotta read more books, more fiction. realise this is a story as old as time itself.

when i made the decision my life would not be a series of collecting status trophies this is all i got for the next 6 months.

merton, go beyond status games

always give. expect nothing in return. this is the cheat code to life.

auster, the fate you runaway from catches you in the end.

all true teachings can be boiled down to one sentence. surrender the outcome.

paradoxically, the less transactional your relationships are. the more you get in return.

Thomas Merton will just u-turn your life

it's taken me months of reading to realize this, this is what surrender means.

krishnamurti saw it coming (1981)