This is the mindset that will make you waste your life away into bags of garbage: the idea that shopping is a material issue, and overconsumption is a budgeting problem, rather than a spiritual problem

fiat literally “let it be” in Latin

“All desire is a desire for

being.

”

We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.

Values act like a sieve: they filter out the empty cravings that come from comparison and they let through only the things that genuinely serve your spirit.

Desire is about what the object seems to promise us: a fuller, richer existence.

When we feel the weight of our limits, we start reaching toward idols to imitate, goals to chase, places to explore, people to meet. What we’re really chasing is a sense of immortality or infinity, something that lives longer than we ever will. We want to be remembered long after we’ve left a conversation, the company, the world.

every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become.

“All desire is a desire for

being.

”

The painful part of loneliness is the realization that most people are ass-kissers and friendship is rare.