John's Blog

All Knowledge Is Experiential

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?

It’s okay to disappoint others, just try not to disappoint yourself.

People decide to put some things on their bodies instead of other things because of warmth, performance, or status. The biggest reason is status.