- “Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement”
- Most of us think by talking, few ever do
- Social interactions help keep us sane by providing interaction bumpers
- Individuals have to balance what is good for themselves and what is good for the whole
- Games have to be iterable to be durable (things can change and adapt over time)
- It is important that we play the game fairly
- When an authority, it is important to let the lessors control play and win often (1/3 or more)
- Authority comes from competence while power compels
- Liberal and conservative views are both important and need constraint
- Understand the rules well enough to know when to change or break them
- “Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that”
- Humans are really good at imitating
- We need experience before we can recognize a pattern and progress it
- When ignorance demolishes culture, monsters emerge
- We love a good hero story
- “What we need most to find is in the place we least wish to look.”
- We can imitate more than we can explain
- “Do not hide unwanted things in the fog”
- Do not pretend to be happy with something you are not
- “Have the damn fight”
- Life is what repeats and it is worth repeating it right
- Leaning one way causes something else to balance the other side
- The thing said is translated through a lens of all things that have ever been said in the relationship
- “When ignorance is blessed to be wise as folly”
- Is it scary or am I afraid?
- “Notice that oppurtunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated”
- Do the useful things that no one else is doing
- Slay the right sized dragons… They have enough gold to make it worth while
- Games only work if we accept the constraints of the rules
- “Sin” is often better translated as “missed the target”
- It is not cool to be the oldest person at the great party
- Peter Pan, the youthful wild, refused to grow up, thus missing out of life itself
- The hero is often sent to rescue his father
- Voluntarily addressing of challenges is clinically curative
- I, myself, are a community when considered across time
- Happiness is inherently present-time focused and thus the pursuit of happiness does not produce sustained, long-term outcomes
- “Do not do what you hate”
- Stupid things drain us
- Hearken to your still small voice
- “Abandon ideology”
- Ideologs reduce and oversimplify the world to reduce opposition
- No group guilt should be assumed, especially multi-generational
- “Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens”
- The conflicted person cannot negotiate with anything, including themselves
- You need to aim at something to keep you moving
- Enduring something of value fortifies the self
- Potential, never applied, is worth less than the potential applied suboptimaly
- Child need to be self-organized and integratable by 4 years-old
- Without a playable game, only chaos can persist
- Growth is learning to integrate our different selves into a single being
- “Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible”
- This establishes a relationship with the divine
- This beauty can then pervade your life
- Without art, we stop seeing the world and start only seeing pieces
- Artistry is to contend with something you cannot express at a higher level
- Lions attack the wildebeest they can identify
- Art is not a decoration but an exploration
- “If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely”
- When trauma revisits us, it is because we refuse to actively and completely process them
- Bad memories often do not mature as we do
- We relive our traumas until we review them thoroughly
- Worry is a consequence and investigation of future possibilities
- We are all plagued by the memories of what we did wrong or failed to do right
- Power comes when we realize that we each create our future from the raw time and space given us
- God leverages “The Word” in crafting reality
- “Plan and work diligently to maintain that romance in your relationship”
- Decide to not lie to your partner
- Devote some time to maintaining the romance
- Each should be subordinate to a single, higher power
- “You do not find so much as make”
- If there is an escape, there is not likely to be enough heat to burn through the dross
- “I am going to kill you… It is just going to take a lifetime”
- Tyranny is not good for anyone
- If you’re not negotiating then you’re tyrannical or enslaved
- If you do not know, then you should at least guess
- Push through the dismissals
- Red faced tears are often anger and not sadness
- Nice is not the same as good
- “Sins of the fathers” will echo through the generations
- We need to tell our story to know it
- It is easy to get vacations and special events right but harder to get the daily chores satisfactory every time
- What matters is not the fight, but making peace
- Never punish your partner for doing something you want them to continue doing
- “Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant”
- Why waste time perceiving when you can just remember?
- Conceptualize life through stories
- There are always monsters in the dark… until we are big enough to defend ourselves
- Invite the evil queen because she will arrive either way
- Lying is an attempt to alter the realities
- “Be grateful in spite of your suffering”
- Have an informed optimism
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