Round & Round
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. –Leo Tolstoy
It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful. –Nietsche
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. –Leo Tolstoy
08-MAY
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07-MAY
Far Future
Doomed to do it again & again, no choice but to play a Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall.
Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome: ground to dust; plowed with salt.
Spain, France, Britain, America – burned into the oblivion of centuries.
–A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)
06-MAY
Tree Trunk
18-Rules to Live By
- Question every answer.
- Own all outcomes, good & bad.
- Be curious about what’s not right.
- Eschew comfort, but don’t give up seeking pleasure.
- Read books; only finish reading the good ones.
- Write the story of your life.
- Fix what you break; build what we need.
- Take care of yourself in order to take care of others.
- Surround yourself, on occasion, with pure silence.
- Calibrate the truth to tell.
- Tolerate imperfection.
- Look ahead, but act today.
- Start small and compound interest consistently.
- Quit bad moods; always remember the good times.
- Beat a day of distraction with one hour of intense effort.
- Stop what you’re doing and rest, then pace yourself.
- Explore your dreams at night.
- Direct your focus with a conditioning ritual:
- Breathe
- Gesture
- Visualize
05-MAY
Mt. Umunhum
At the top of the mountain, we get to soak in the view.
04-MAY
Franquette St
Start your day at 4:00 AM. You’re up any way, why do you to need to stay in bed? Sit up and meditate. Breathe, and say the word “thought” over and over again trying to visualize what it looks like. If that makes you sleepy, go back to bed.
03-MAY
Cosmic Influence
You will see change taking place no matter where you look.
Think of it as a mind expanding message from the stars, maybe not the work of human beings.
Note: On the X platform you can change the playback speed from one quarter to twice as fast.
02-MAY
Ann’s Room
Attend to your breathing – whether thru mouth or nose doesn’t matter. Force inhale, do not force exhale; relax, repeat.
Inhale can be deep or shallow, fast or slow, your choice. Deep & slow is spiritual. Fast & shallow is animalistic.
How long can you keep this up before losing focus?
01-MAY
Isolated
What society thinks of as reality is the hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced fiction in which we are all collectively participating. –Deepak Chopra
Update April 26, 2023: still waiting for results of yesterday’s MRI.