At a certain level of ‘success’, individuals ‘collect’ other individuals. Success in the traditional world is measured by how many individuals are subservient to you. Tell them to fuck right off. How can another individual have a higher claim on your life than you? Choose freedom and opt out. Control is an illusion. The choice is yours… Free the Mind GN

‘The state doesn’t have your best interest’ starter pack: “The state claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. ... It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.” -Albert J. Nock

A black friend just asked me if my mom’s chicken / turkey on holidays was as dry as knee caps

‘Experts’ are mere voyeurs. There are no substitutes for lived experience. How can you know everything yet know nothing? Experts learn because they must feel intellectually superior. Amateurs learn out of love and passion. Be an amateur in everything you do

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I was happiest when I was sitting on the side of the road and didn’t have ‘shit’

From an external viewpoint , true wealth may appear poor Be careful how you treat people . Don’t overlook wisdom because you don’t ‘like’ the vessel it appears in. The greatest things are often overlooked

“If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.” -David Foster Wallace Time to read this for a 3rd time.

For so long, I wanted to be anyone other than myself. Now I wouldn’t want to be anyone other than myself Your internal state manifests in the world around you