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If you have an existing plan, and are certain of this plan’s effectiveness, then the best course of action is to adhere to this plan.
Thirteen is a prime number, integral and wholesome, not a faceless conglomerate of spineless factors that scatter quickly under threat of division.
When a system expels its own fuel, things can’t be running smoothly.
That was a relief from manufactured busyness, that relief was elevator music that played between the floors of stress.
There’s nothing to do! This is great news. In the face of the worst or the best, you can just live.
If life isn’t fair, then the imitation of life must also be unfair.
Art was nothing without a hook to hang it on and eyes to hang it for.
If life has no purpose, then existence requires no justification, then non-existence requires no acceptance.
On the top is pain, at the bottom is shame and the whole climb is suffering.’
That’s another thing I’ve become very good at, being able to laugh at a feeling
instead of feeling it – I’m getting ahead of myself, I apologize.
The calmest human states were those of deep concentration, strong attention to something. Pure focus permitted no despair.
‘Forever will always arrive.’
All problems you see in the world are your problem. Often the world needs servicing, but equally often you might require an eye test.
