kyleschen

Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckiest of the lucky, one out of a thousand or even a million. So however unlucky you may be on some occasion today, your presence on the planet testifies to the role luck has played in your past.

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.

It’s summed up on this dopey yoga wall hanging the wife has in the house that I only really understood this year:
——————————————-MAY YOU REALIZE YOUR DIVINITY IN THIS LIFETIME.——————————————
That’s worth working for. It took me 40 yrs, but I finally realized my divinity in this lifetime. Not talking “Clapton is God” or Lennon’s “We’re bigger than Jesus” when I say this: but we can each… hell, we SHOULD each make of ourselves… a god, for lack of better expression.
And I’m not talking the drag-some-kid-into-the-woods-and-cut-his-heart-out bullshit; I’m talking about finding for ourselves the same reverence the faithful reserve for the divine.
And what better to shoot for than mortal divinity?

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

See good in everything and in everyone. But love only a few fiercely and determinately. Make them heroes. Find patterns among them. Stage hypothetical conversations, debates, between them. Have inspiration outside what you do. The way you do anything is the way you do everything. And if you want to be pushed, have heroes in anything, everywhere.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.