Quotes

Notes to self, in no particular order, and occasionally in disagreement with each other.

Truth and seeing25

Truth is an individual quest, rarely a group's venture
Consensus and truth are orthogonal
Why is society filled with lies and non-truths?
As long as there are lies, you want to hear and believe in, there will be someone or something to feed them to you.
Truth in words, art, speech and actions is felt. True art needs no validation. True art will pierce through you
The biggest lie fed to humankind. There is no solution, There is no truth.
Another biggest lie fed to humankind. That it is not simple, it is.
Why does everyone want a solution? Why does everyone want to give solutions? But no one wants to look at, discuss or seeks to understand the problem?
Most evidence proven in a different context fails in another, despite all the intention, glamour, hype or justifications.
Truth and non-truth do not compose a duality.
Duality is not the solution, it’s a trap. Duality is fractal, prone to infinite regress.
Why does one write or speak or sell what is false, non-truth and misleading? For what?
There are two distinct entities with less overlap – truth and evidence-backed truth
Many want to predict; few want to understand. Few who understand, may effect a change not by intention but by virtue of understanding.
Most projections are false.
Most of what is written, spoken, believed and shown is a lie.
New is not equal to true, new is not equal to solution.
What’s new to ears has no relationship with the truth of it.
Checklist approach can never lead to truth. Truth emerges from the search of it.
Only seekers can find the truth. Only believers can see the magic. Only the devoted can meet God.
If you already know the outcome, the search is false.
There are no experts
History can give you only references, templates and examples. New has no trace in old by definition.
There exists a mind, when lied to can see the truth in it, when shown truth can see the lie in it
Most of your thoughts are not yours, are not true, do not represent anything real, think about it

Mind, fear and freedom19

Having choices may appear like freedom, but it is slavery to choose among the choices.
How powerful or powerless is a magnet if the object lacks magnetic susceptibility?
The strongest resistance one needs to overcome is not external, it's always internal in the form of thoughts, doubts, questions and opinion.
Music numbs the sounds in your head. Sometimes you need it, only sometimes.
Timeless things lack structure in chronology. Formless things lack structure in form. Thoughtless experience lack structure in thoughts to articulate.
Thinking and saying the thing, changes it. Diminishes it. Erodes it.
If it feels good, remind yourself of the upcoming catastrophes. If it feels bad, accept it as the default.
Everyone is trying to sell you an identity.
Why does one derive pleasure and pride in finding flaws in anything one sees, hears or reads?
The real confidence, if it exists, exists at the source from where things arise.
The most potent obstacle in one’s path is doubt
Attempt to control thought by another thought is a contradiction, self-reference leading to infinite regress
Freedom is not to control thoughts, but to be free of them
Choices will slave you
Questions create the path; answers take one off it
The thing that makes you feel proud, will cripple you
The thing that elates you, slaves you
Sometimes there is no enemy or cage outside of you, but only in your mind
You are blind to the magic within you, you've seen a few glimpses...

Action and winning18

If you are sick of where you are, put fire all around you, till it starts to burn, leaving you no choice but to move.
Most hard work comes from fear and insecurity. Most work is not hard. Most work is not work.
Find someone who has already done it, study them and follow them.
Hack to get the right mentor. Select someone who is where you want to be. Check if they have taken someone like you up there and beyond them.
Never stop learning. There is no work. There is no rest.
For some things, you win if you’re the last one standing
There is a peace time version, and a war time version of you
Trophies are won during practice, picked up during competition
Lazy never start, weak could not finish and give up in middle, winners don't know how to stop
I'm tired, I don't have energy, I'm not ready - are all lies and excuses created by mind, this is laziness rationalised and accepted
Decent waits to get hot, good try to get hot, great never get cold
Bear the pain of being a somebody, or accept the pain of staying a nobody
Just win.
Achievement, comes from action and not from aspiration
Burn down the bridges, which lead to mediocrity; be pushed to a corner, and let what's inside come out
Practice is hard and intentional, performance is flow and involuntary
Winners focus on goals, losers focus on winners
Pain is temporary, if you quit, it stays forever

Life and self40

Tragedy and malevolence occurred. One fails because of it. One succeeds because of it. One succeeds despite it.
True devotion has beginning and re-beginning, there is no destination
Don't be a follower, be a student
One can give you food, but not hunger. There is food, but not lacking hunger to take it
There were things I did not know how I would do it, but when I put myself at a place to do them, they did themselves through me.
A lot of our identity gets caught up into the groups and the races we put ourselves into.
What a life it will be to lose yourself while tuning with the universe?
All tables turn around.
The people around you are important, select wisely and deselect them unapologetically.
All that is inside, find its way on the outside.
Betrayal makes one lose the ability to trust. Do not break trust. No second chances.
Imagine life as a drive in fog. As you walk, the path reveals itself to you. If you wait for the path to be visible, you will keep waiting.
A human exists at the interface of the chaos and order.
Love and truth have the most powerful effect.
So many things are being done just for the sake of them.
It’s not really an adventure, if you’re optimising for outcomes.
Never lose your soul.
What you learn, from what source and in what order, matters.
Pride in one’s insufficiencies is not a mistake, it’s a sin.
Destiny exists, it is revealed to the one seeking it
Where there is self, there cannot be love
Unconditional love, affection and care fuel the most potent alchemy. So does unbearable pain, neglect and hate.
The thing you want but don’t have, you don’t really want it. Things that you already have, are the things you can’t live without.
Any attempt to make anything be natural, no longer stays natural
Some do not arrive because of their limitations. Some arrive despite them
Undeniable Truths – your time will not come back, health will only deteriorate with time, people around you will leave you
The most powerful human instinct is not sexual instinct, it is the instinct to survive.
Of the things that are neither zero or one, when looked at increments seem to converge at either one or zero
It's not your fault, but it is your problem
Entropy, death and chaos are laws of nature, creating, nurturing and sustaining life takes thoughtful attention and efforts, daily
Life is a single player game, there are no second chances of things that matter
He was waiting for light... did not come, had to choose to be light
What looked like light at the end of the tunnel, turned out to be a train coming at full speed with nowhere to go
You won't get out of this life alive
There is no journey, there is only destination, and then the next one
Wrecked my life, to resurrect my life
Sign of intelligence is to see if one has what one wants; sign of wisdom is knowing the right wants to have
Light yourself on fire, let it burn away parts of you worth turning into ash, and leave the parts worth keeping and building upon
Hell is looking at yourself, and realising who you could have been
Make yourself into someone, only a few years left, fewer with family and others

Building and systems9

For some, anything old with an atom of new becomes new. For others, anything new with an atom of old becomes old.
Disruption comes from outsiders.
Throwing money and people at problems will not solve them
Upward spiral exists, but it’s not the default. Downward spiral is default as entropy of the universe is increasing at all levels.
Water percolates top-down, from the main branch to smaller to the smallest. Fire spreads bottom, from a spark to burning all that can be burnt.
Most confuse programmability with scalability. Make it into a programmable process, standards of operations or guidelines; that will make it scalable.
Impact is the new asset class. What is impact? What is new? What is an asset? What is a class?
There are no three or multi-body problems. There exists only two-body problem and the cumulative effect of this on any scale. Is it?
Heat and pressure lead to purification. Higher the intensity, higher the purification.