Deep Thoughts

No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear

— Mary Kate Teske

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

— Joan Didion

the front porches gave way to backyard decks and studio apartments and the coveted Micro Homes where you could be alone with your devices.

Own nothing! Possess nothing! Buddha and Christ taught us this, and the Stoics and the Cynics. Greedy though we are, why can't we seem to grasp that simple teaching?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

— Voltaire

Karma vs Schadenfreude — In essence, while karma is a broader spiritual concept about the consequences of actions, schadenfreude is a specific emotional response to others' misfortunes. The two can intersect when someone feels pleasure (schadenfreude) at what they perceive as karmic justice being served to another person.

I am humble enough to know I am not better than anyone else, but wise enough to know I am different.

Hope sustains life. Hope is the elixir of survival during our darkest times. The ability to envision and imagine a brighter day gives meaning to our suffering and renders it bearable. When we lose hope, we lose our central source of strength and resilience.