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Boredom

Beaches nourish us because they’re one of the few places we allow ourselves to be bored.

No amount of money will clear your conscious. It’s not something you can buy.

It’s a lot easier to know that money won’t buy you happiness after you’re already rich.

With our situation, we have three options at any given time: accept it, change it, leave it.

With our bodies, we have three options at any given time: sit, stand, lie.

With our minds, we have three options at any given time: ego, self-awareness, emptiness.

The thought—”the world would be a better place if everyone thought like me”—is pretty flawed when you think about it.

In life, we play a lot of games – status, jobs, education, etc. A reason to win them is to be free of them.

You can always opt-out of the games too, but there may be anxiety from the avoidance.

Feel specialness, experience separateness.

I wonder how much of people’s enjoyment of swimming, surfing, and skydiving is because they’re hard to do while listening to podcasts?