Reclusion

We can’t easily change the way we live because we can’t let go of the way we think.

There are places which give an expansive sense that a place infinitely more enchanting exists beyond them…and then there are places which seem sickened by their very own existence.

It’s not just the absence of people - true solitude is impossible if there’s either a purpose or pursuit on the mind.

True growth is less about avoiding regret and more about the ability to handle regret.

If the constraints we accept are based on the boundaries of our experience, we are thinking with our memory - not our mind.

The moments that feel like they have superseded death, when death has become meaningless - that’s when someone has really lived.

Hatred of religion usually starts first with the hatred for the religious.

We give up a lot of our lives emulating the lives of others, who in turn are emulating someone else’s … and so on; no one’s living s life of their own.

If the suffering seems inordinately disproportionate, your suffering is probably more for others than due to them. You may be feeling worse for others than they do for themselves.

Mortality never provides a choice; Immortality provides the semblance of one, even to the most pedestrian life.

Desperation and hope are not too different - they drive us to believe in what we know to be a lie.

Leave the world; join the universe.

No one is ever truly alone. There’s always time which is passing and death which is approaching.

The good life is the one which one would gladly embrace a second time because you truly believe you could make it better.

It’s both humbling and liberating when one has to ratchet down from wanting to look better to wanting to see better.

I will lose my mind if I don’t lose my memory. Soon.