The Bodega at the End of the Internet

Slowly the disease of the soul, which rich people have, grabbed hold of him.

If you want to understand others, you must start by

understanding yourself.

This system, which allows private-equity firms to succeed when their companies, customers, and employees fail, is broken.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.

Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.

The more we choose to accept responsibility in our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives. Accepting responsibility for our problems is thus the first step to solving them.

I’m now thirty-six years old, and the convenience-store-worker-me is eighteen. None of the other workers who did their training with me are here anymore, and we’re now on our eighth manager. Not a single product on sale in the store at that time is left. But I’m still here.

When I first started here, there was a detailed manual that taught me how to

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

the Master concerns himself

with the depths and not the surface,

with the fruit and not the flower.

He has no will of his own.

He dwells in reality,

and lets all illusions go.