On poetry

Poetry can be chatty, but it shouldn't just be a chat.

Are does not

Are does not imply was, does not promise will be.

We imagine & we pretend

We imagine we know where we're going while we pretend we understand where we've been.

Death

Death, however scheduled, is always the result of something going wrong.

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On regret

Small-regret is for what you didn't do.  Big-regret is for what you won't get to do.

I will always root for

I will always root for the mischievous against the devious.

Nothing

Nothing is not a thing.  Nothing is the negation of thingness.

The poorest

Some can thrive with the poorest of philosophies.

Responses to a rule

There are four possible responses to a rule: obey it; disobey it; ignore it; or change it.

Youism

Buddhism worked for Buddha, but Buddhism will not work for you. Only Youism will work for you.

You will never lose your way

You will never lose your way if you never have a way to lose.

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To be good

To be good is to try to be good, and to keep trying until you succeed, and to keep trying after you've succeeded.

Your normal

But your normal is my disaster, and vice versa.

It is true

It is true that everything matters, and it is true that nothing matters, just at different scales.

Sometimes

Sometimes something is too complicated for us to figure out. Sometimes we are too complicated to figure it out.

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The new thing

I am enlivened by the new thing because in an instant I grow sufficient to recognize it, and growth often triggers satisfaction, or even joy.

Most human conceptions

Most human conceptions of god are merely maximal ego.