Lau

Just make sure your midlife crisis is more fun than you thought it would be.

The map is not the territory, but all we see is the map. We are always translating, constantly fooling ourselves. What we call reality is so impressively congruent in perception that we confuse ourselves. If this interests you, read about analytical idealism.

The reason people search for meaning in their lives and cannot find it is because meaning is something that must be created. Those who do not create that meaning themselves will always feel that it is absent. Before humanity existed, before there were people on Earth, there was no meaning. Meaning is something created by humans, carried and held by humans. If you do not live with this awareness, your life becomes something that happens to you. We are creators by creating. It is absolutely necessary to take full responsibility for your own existence, your own feelings, your own experience of this ephemeral life. Don't assume someone will tell you the meaning of your life, because you will follow meaning that isn't yours. Create your own meaning, be a creator, be like your creator.

Behavior is measurable. Identity is not. Don't confuse these two.

You get to decide what any of this means to you, that meaning is yours to create, to hold onto or let go of.

Fucks appear to be flying, but don't expect to get one from me.

I no longer wish to be Lau. I wish to be transformation.

You were given free will and you used it to make a mess of your mind? Time to show yourself you are a conscious human being. Good luck.

Casual rudeness is the new mindfulness. Suck my dick, fatty.

Bhakti When I was eight years old I fell in love with Nicole. It was my first time falling in love. I did not understand what was happening to me, but I recognized both the direction it physically gave me and a certain essence that I knew didn't require anything. Nicole was sweet, she responded to me with tenderness and answered with care. She told me she could not return the same feeling. Even though we were both only eight years old, somehow this practice seemed natural. I can't tell you what her perspective was, only what my perspective of hers was. When I went home with Nicole's answer, I noticed that I didn't lose the feeling. I didn't feel rejected, I still felt the same love. I knew then, that I loved being, I loved being part of everything, I loved myself, I loved everyone. The feeling persisted and I started nurturing it, with Nicole as the representative. I wrote her letters she never received, made her drawings that I kept in a self embroidered pouch around my neck. Nicole gave me her attention and time for part of that journey for me, I don't remember she ever told me why, but I'm grateful that she did. Now this is almost four decades ago, I still carry with me that feeling. I give it to everyone who has the interest to really see me.

No amount of response to noise is going to turn the noise into signal.

Let go of what is not yours, let go of what you can't lose because it wasn't yours to own. Receive with gratitude that which is given to you, but don't claim from another that which isn't yours.

If you truly care about your own life, if you truly love yourself, your goal should be to have autonomy over your time.

Have your own plan. Don't work on someone else's. Collaborating, even in hierarchical structure of control, could be part of it. Just make sure you don't stay a wage earner.

I lost 8kg (17.5lbs) from fasting. I've never done any fasting in my life before. I didn't think about doing it, I just stopped eating for a while. Did one small meal a day for two weeks followed by a 72hr fast. Now I weigh 68kg (150lbs). Pretty stoked. 💪

#Bitcoin creates its own incentives for it to persist.

Not seeing the whole picture is keeping you from seeing the whole picture

We are evolving with the condition we call language. Language makes us perceptible to what we can name.

All of the predicted consequences of a simple protocol called #Bitcoin have been easy to make because it is a simple protocol. For those that hold on to belief, I refer to books to read. There is nothing to believe. Ideology is a mental disease for cope.

The essence of forgiveness is finding out for what.