mental health
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Find and Maintain Confidence
Finding confidence is far more important than finding happiness. Confidence gives us the ability to endure any situation. Happiness is always fleeting. Money is a drug that creates the illusion of confidence. When rich people speak of pursuing their bliss,… Continue reading
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An Evolutionist’s Motto
Don’t try so hard to be perfect that you drive yourself insane. Continue reading
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Mea Culpa
Time and the world, money and power belong to the small people and the shallow people. To the rest, to the real men belongs nothing. Nothing but death. Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf Regrettably, I have allowed the small people to distract… Continue reading
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Contemplating Ataraxia and Pleasure
Recently the concept of Ataraxia was brought up in a rather disjointed way. (I am a big fan of how certain ideas or concepts can simply arrive at specific times.) It came in reference to the Buddhist belief that desire… Continue reading
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The Pain of Conscious Progress
Powerful people must experience their own decline to the point of open awareness, or else the fight to control will destroy the world. Continue reading
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The Need For Emotional Temperance
The energy comes at us from all directions. Sometimes we know the source and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we are the source, but don’t know it. This energy builds images in our minds, and the images compel action. If the… Continue reading