Here are one hundred straightforward principles for would-be human-beings everywhere. Pick a few and take them deadly seriously…
If you didn’t find beauty or meaning today, you didn’t live today.
Your emotions will lie to you, your sensations will not.1
The first and, often, only power you have over pain is the power to face it.
All good things require pain, uncertainty and constant maintenance.
Difficult is good.2
If you must use the screen, use it to make beauty.
Widen your taste by loving a hundred times as many strange things.
Deepen your taste by loving one ordinary thing a hundred times more.
The source of happiness is to be happy about nothing in particular.
Irritation that does not act rots the soul.3
Never ridicule stupidity. Insensitivity and lack of passion are fair game.
If you are in a relationship make love all the time.
Do not live through your children.
A second-rate workman cannot be happy for long.
Exercise lightly every day, and heavily twice a week.
The news will give you nothing.
The situation is the closest thing to God in existence.
Do not complain about the situation. Do not blame the situation.
Only the situation knows what to do. Not you.
The situation is always appropriate.
Those who don’t listen to the situation always do too much, or not enough.
The situation is constantly asking for you to acknowledge and notice it.
You get what you acknowledge and what you notice.
What you you get is either your self (hell), or the situation (heaven).
‘Left’ and ‘right’ are, first and foremost, psychological forms.
Masochistic slaves prefer leftism, the religion of dominance by the mass.
Sadistic masters prefer rightism, the religion of dominance by the person.
The mass, and the person, are forms of ignorance.
Theism and atheism are also, first and foremost, psychological forms.
People with weak minds prefer theism, worship of living ideas.
People with weak hearts prefer atheism, worship of dead ideas.
If you do not pay soft attention to bird song, you will burn in hell.
You will become like the people you live and work with.
The lesson of our times, is how to be radically alone.
If the people sing your praises, ask yourself what you’ve done wrong.
Fame leads to spiritual death, which is why the famous are spiritually dead.
Throw away your smartphone. Get a dumb phone.
Life will take away the good you are not grateful for.
It’s okay to indulge yourself; just don’t get it on the brain.
Do not spend time with those who cannot give you their attention.
Do not make love with someone who can’t listen.
The only way to beat the non-human is to be more human.
If you don’t know how to spend your money, give it to someone who does.
If all you can do with free time is fill it with fun, you do not deserve it.
Pain is a teacher. Suffering is trying to avoid the lesson.
You can’t make yourself happy.
Revenge and success wanks, like any other wank, are just sex with yourself.
Everything you do and everything you say expresses everything you are.
The tone of your speech comes before the content of it.
You can’t pick and choose the things you like about people.