Chubmeister 5000

From Unconscious to Conscious Relating: ⚫️🌙🌒🌗🌔🌕 1. Oblivious – No awareness; acting out patterns unconsciously. Life just happens to you. 2. Denial – You sense something’s off, but reject or suppress it. 3. Deflecting - Downplaying, glossing over; pretending things are

Be a bodhisattva to all of yourself

One of my favourite takes is "if you are 'spiritual' but your spirituality does not require you to undergo hardship or alter your preferences, you are actually worshipping yourself" It's guaranteed to annoy whoever you say it to, without exception. it endlessly fascinates me.

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."—Simone Weil

An easy way to increase agency is to remove "problem" from your vocabulary and replace it with "puzzle". It sounds absurd but "problem" activates your amygdala and "puzzle" activates your prefrontal cortex. Try it. Self-induced placebo that works.

It’s kind of funny that as you get better at noticing things, one of the harder things to notice is the difference between what you notice and what others notice. once you’ve noticed something it tends to feel “obvious” and it’s natural to assume everyone else notices it too

The amount of people who seem to live as if cowardice were heavily rewarded really make me think that simply being brave has a greater effect on life outcomes than intelligence, conscientiousness, beauty, etc.