An idea becomes pornographic when the idea of doing it is weighted more heavily than actually accomplishing what the goal or value sets out to accomplish.

“Hate is a second-order effect of repressed pain, and identity is the second-order effect of an unhealed self.” by Zat Rana https://link.medium.com/ipoLzvZEX0

The hardest thing about moving forward is letting go who you are now

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” - Dr. Seuss

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think -- Edwin Schlossberg

We are so deeply enmeshed in the mental state of “wanting,” we cannot shift to a state of “having.”

To teach is to learn twice — Joseph Joubert

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Everything you want is on the other side of fear

Big challenges don’t trip us up. Little petty annoyances cumulatively throw our lives off-balance. Office politics at work, your commute, errands, meaningless news, gossip, tiny bouts of envy, social media, so it goes.

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” — Charles Bukowski