9/4

None of the choices we can make are the right one. But we still have to choose.

9/3

Virtually nothing is exactly the same today as it was yesterday.

Each day that we think that things will be the same—that we can just go on with our routines, bask in our ignorance, that we take for granted safety and security, that we can live without a need for humility nor perspective—is another day inching closer and closer towards irreversible change.

The decision is simply to decide if we want to be ones changing it, or the ones changed.

8/29

Too soon, or too late?

Neither.

8/28

The world is already in balance. It always has, and always will be.

There is neither good nor evil, neither joy nor suffering, neither a plot nor characters. Merely matter moving about in peculiar ways.

We need not worry about the world—only ourselves.

At the end of the day, it is only about what we do for each other, how we speak with one another, and how we will write the stories that we will write. If we destroy ourselves in the process, or if we prosper, it will only matter to us.

8/27

We cannot speak the truth; we can only speak of it.

We cannot bestow ourselves with the confidence to speak as if we knew the truth exactly for what it was. Every statement we make is but a small component constituting a greater truth, and we should go about our lives and speak to one another as if we’re building something together—not as if it’s already built.

8/26

Do we truly believe we can go about life with neither suffering nor mistakes? Do we expect to better ourselves as human beings without them? Then why are we shocked when they present themselves to us?

The emergence of suffering or a mistake is merely a signpost, a reminder for us that it’s time to learn once again. Why should we be disappointed by an opportunity—no, the sole way that we become a better person than we were yesterday?

8/25

Our circumstances do not make us free.

Freedom only exists when your mind decides to free itself.

8/24

It may seem just like any other day, but, if we take the time to see beyond the confines of our perception—to fight our predisposition to draw trends and assign narratives—the reality is that no day happens precisely like the last, and no person is the same person today as they were yesterday. The atoms and molecules, the unceasing chain of actions and consequences, will never align in the same way ever again.

This is all the more true if we believe we can make a difference. And if we believe we can be changed.

8/23

Constantly remember how you were when you were overwhelmed by negative emotion, how you were in moments of peace or happiness, and how shockingly minimal agency you had in those moments.

There's far too much important work to be done in this life to depend on our fickle, capricious, and wayward emotions. The moment we can break free, we should. It is selfish to do otherwise.

8/22

Never forget that every minute of inaction, of mindlessness, of apathy, is an opportunity wasted.

Never forget what you were meant to do. And what you can do.