All conditioned things are impermanent—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it grapples with something that could threaten a character's day-to-day reality.
Stop wishing you could go back and do things differently, that's a waste of time. Focus on the present, start doing things differently now.
What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted.
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
