A person can love you and still be a poor partner.

A person can care about you and still be emotionally inconsistent.

A person can mean well and still create chaos.

And yet we are so invested in relationships.

We are so consumed by the drama of illusions.

These dreamlike images of perceived being are misunderstood as reality.

We take immense pleasure in decorating this illusion with more illusions.

Living in dreams seems more important than waking up to the mysteries of existence.

That is the real cowardice.

You might face an army of external circumstances just so that you don’t have to face yourself.

Why are we so afraid of ourselves?

Why can’t we merely love ourselves instead of being overly obsessed with being perfect?

Why do we think of the future before we maintain ourselves in the present?

This life, this existence, is fresh. It never goes bad.

It is what it is—every single moment, a new moment, a new experience, a new life, and a new existence.

We reorient ourselves as human beings with every blink.

But our minds are stuck with outcomes. Futurism.

As a child, you were certain of who you were, and then adults talked you out of it.

Because, as children, we are who we want to be.

As adults, the stage of fulfilment is always kept in the future.

No animal on earth knows what Monday is. No plant, no ocean, no nervous system in nature. The week doesn’t exist. You have been exhausted by something that was never real.

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The greatest quest of mankind is not to win the world.

But to spend everything he has to discover himself.

Again. Again and again.

If you want to be a dutiful member of society, this is the work you have to do.

Discovering and unlearning yourself from moment to moment.

The real creation is not something extra that you put into existence.

Anything excessive is malicious, numerous, diseased, and discomforting.

To create is to become the medium of change.

There is no doingness in creation.

In fact, the true meaning of creating is to let things happen.

The greatest mind is at work when it’s doing nothing.

Would it be worth your time during your one precious life to pursue your creative dream?

To not father things, but let God walk on your feet.

To not have your cord of attachment intact to the mother, but to take birth from your own womb and become your own mother and your own daughter.

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Why do you awaken to the truth?

Many spiritual beings attribute the purpose of life to spiritual awakening.

Know thyself — said the Greeks.

It is a great conquest, but what lies beyond that?

If it is going to take you back to the caves, it is orthodox.

If it is going to take you to Silicon Valley, it is futuristic.

But the ideas of the past and the future are far-fetched.

I have seen many people building empires on this notion of false living.

It is not adventurous to protect yourself from what has already happened and what is about to happen.

Both have their own place, and they are placed where they belong.

In the past and in the future, not in the present.

To answer the call to adventure is to live life in the present moment.

Life is not an effort to be made. It is a presence.

Living life is to live without asking questions about what it means to live. Just live.

And that is the greatest faith you can have in yourself and in this existence.

You have your mouth, you have a belly, and you will have food on the plate, too.

Live, even if the outcome is uncertain.

Fear is what if — faith is even if.

Normalise not knowing what’s next and dancing anyway.

The art of not being ready and doing it anyway will take you so far.

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We live our lives in the preparation of living.

Stop trying to master your craft. Just create.

Days when you create nothing are a very normal part of an artist’s life.

Real work happens in silence, not applause.

The artist staring out the window is an artist at work.

I like the feeling of slow mornings and watching sunsets, being present.

Develop a taste for yourself in the world—art, books, films, inspiring figures—and find that everything you are drawn towards is a piece of you. That’s attempting to speak back.

Your weird is someone else’s wonderful.

The quickest way to tell how intelligent someone is used to be to see how well they can consider someone else’s point of view without getting defensive.

You’re trying to sound complex, but simplicity has always won because it takes a genius to be simple.

Transmitting the existential crisis into art.

If one option is to go mad and kill yourself, another is to create a work of art.

It’s very sexy of you to feel your feelings and alchemise your pain into poetry.

I am an artist, and I don’t need to make sense.

Love yourself enough to disappear into your work.

Become what you’re doing.

The things we do, do things to us.

What we are making is also making us; mastering one craft is mastering one’s own nature.

Be silent and let it fruit itself.

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If you precisely want to be uncertain in life, fall in love.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

I thought enlightenment was the greatest form of being and disappearing until I fell in love.

I gave my love all of it, and it kept returning multiplied every time.

The joy, the pleasure, the anger, the laughter, everything.

As I fell in love, I stood in love in my own grave of mind, spirit, and body.

Some people are just pure magic, that’s all.

Be open and not overly obsessed about it.

If it is meant for you, it will cross oceans, distances, and doubt to reach you.

Set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours.

It is a dream that keeps on coming true.

Night is pregnant with the new day.