Month: May 2024

So much love allows us to overlook all the flaws.

So much hate only notices the imperfections.

That seems applicable if you want to recalibrate your expectations of people.

It is thought of as intense feeling or love. But passion actually means to suffer.

When someone is full of passion, they are suffering.

We act, create, disguise…all in an effort to avoid something.

That’s the thing about our brains; we tend to move toward the things we find pleasurable and run away from the things we can’t stand.

Humans, on the other hand, keep score. We give nature a name. We act as if this entity will treat us the same way as we treat her.

Understanding that humans’ narrative doesn’t extend to others is essential.

A bee doesn’t get up and wonder if it should be a bee today. It’s just a bee and does what bees do. Humans are the complete opposite and unique in this manner.

We have choices of who we want to be, how we act, what we do, which stories to tell…

Humility is much easier to come by when things are taken away.

It’s much harder to be humble when everything works in our favor.

Humankind can only bear so much responsibility. The same goes for consciousness and awareness.

Perhaps that is the space for enlightenment or prajna.

All we can endure and then some.

They say never to be too high or too low.

But that’s not a space our emotions can operate in.

However, we can be better about our expectations on ourselves, others, and the world.

When we say “literally,” we are asking people to believe what we are saying. To interpret the worlds exactly as they sound.

That’s the difficulty part of communication.

Our brains struggle in the grey areas because of our emotions and our point of view. Words have multiple meanings and different contexts. Voice inflections and, of course, history influence what someone says.

We hang on words.

A series of choices can lead us down roads that we are not happy to be on.

Yet, one choice can also turn it all around.

It’s amazing at rock bottom, how one shred of hope feels.

Humans need it. It’s part of the story we tell.

Indeed, hope is the ultimate comforter.