Reflections

Embrace the Universe 

You are beautiful and today is the day that peace is yours to cherish and love like a warm embrace. Do something for yourself and then do something for another. That synergy is the universe coursing through, infinite and abundant, since the opening moments and never to die.

Dark Matter 

The universe consists of dark matter too. Every day, we hush our darkest side to sleep, whether consciously or not. We are meant to be beacons in the night, not destroyers of the light. That fight is everything, and it's more meaningful than we could ever understand. 

Our Test Site 

The odds of you, exactly you, being born are 1 in 400 trillion. 

About the same odds as 2 million people getting together to each roll a trillion-sided dice. And each one of them landing on the same exact number. 

The odds of you being around at this exact time in history on a still-viable planet: even lower.

This is a massive test site, and we are being tested. Right here, right now, all us miracles will decide the future of humanity. We are far more special than we could ever imagine.

How fucking cool is this? Make sure you pass.

Rage

It is your duty to keep your rage at bay and channel it into love, even when it feels wrong. Even when it feels like you might die trying to contain it. It’s the only way, and your bravery will be honored far beyond this world and this lifespan. Love vs hate is the war for the universe. 

God, I have so much work to do myself.

You Are Your Own Jailer

In a given day, it is almost certain that no one has thought about you in the way your brain invents. Don’t mistake thoughts for facts and freedom for prison. You are your own jailer. Just go.

God 

It doesn’t matter who your God is, just that you have one that isn’t yourself.

Bluetooth Problems

THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN WHEN MY BLUETOOTH DEVICES AUTO-TOGGLE BETWEEN EACH OTHER, screams the first-world man, right as a child in Africa breathes his last from malnutrition. 

Comparison can be useful.

Choose Your Own Adventure 

Adulthood is when you finally get to live your favorite “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. The one you dreamed of making when you were young but deemed impossible. You can close chapters, open new ones, and shoot off into the cosmos. You don’t have to be afraid, because you can always start over.

Fabric 

Society is stretching into two polar directions and the fabric will soon tear. After that, it’s either healing or hell.

Salvation Lies Within

If you love someone unconditionally, that you would die for them rather than see them suffer- even if only for a moment- there is salvation for you in this sad, beautiful world. And when it fades to black and your possessions and pursuits are ripped away, there will be brilliant light awaiting you in the next. 

Rookie of the Year

I like being a teacher because I'm a rookie- in a place where the key to improvement and progression is simply a genuine connection with children to help them succeed. There is no other barometer. I have so much to learn from others, and they are excited to help me because they love children too. In corporate, there were seemingly thousands of ways to rise- some tangible, some blurry, some based on nothing at all. 

Unite, People! 

The entire structure of our life here is an illusion. We tell ourselves grand fairytales of the power of corporations, governments, religions, and the worst of all, money. Sometimes these stories grant us sleep, and sometimes they keep us up all night in the comfortable cells the rich have created for us. They create division where there should be only shared joy. We self-anesthetize to dull the pain we face separately. 

There are so many of us and so few of them. We are merely a step away from paradise, if only we could be so brave to unite and just move forward. We deserve better than the deal we are getting here. 

Déjà Vu and You

I’ve always found déjà vu to be a comforting indicator of repetition. We have all experienced this before, from the origin of light to the final brave leap into the dark. We are ok, and on the familiar path. It’s just time to get it right. 

Live madly and don't look back.

Let Go. 

There is such immense joy in letting every thing exist outside your control, including the inner workings of your own heart. It’s such a long road in, and there’s so long to go. Let go of your triumphs and burdens. None of this is of your doing, and none of this is your fault.

Careers 

When “what you do” matches who you are, sparks fly to the end of the universe and back. 

American Gods

Hero worship of politicians is an odd choice. It’s akin to thanking someone who is holding a gun to your head while whispering sweet, worthless promises in your ear. Stockholm Syndrome, except you can always just leave.

Silent and Brave 

Loud virtues signal internal corruption. 
If a picture is worth a thousand words,
A brave action is worth a million.

Your Cup 

Self before selfless. Fill your cup until it overflows to others. 

One Year Anniversary

I’m in orbit. She tends to earth.
Our love is the sky- shared and limitless. 

The Coin 

Hate and love share neurological basis, with the distinction that hate is actually the more rational of the two emotions. 

Hate leads to separation. As a principle, the universe strives to be entropic- separate, random, disordered.

It takes courage to love another- you must counter your wiring AND the wishes of the universe. The ultimate test. 

Blind faith in the rewards of love has its basis in another courageous act- belief. 

I wish you all courage today.

Stardust 

You are a celebrity. So are your people.

There’s no reason to look elsewhere. 
We’re made from stardust, every atom. 
One day, we will be stardust again.
Stands to reason we’re all stars now.

Navigate by Day

It’s easy to find dance partners in the dark and friends in the shadows. Turn the lights on and take inventory of who remains- hold them tight and never let them go.

Warm Blooded 

Like a weighted blanket, sadness provides comfort against the cold until you need out. It’s a temporary stay. We are emotional, intelligent, and our blood runs hot. We learn to insulate ourselves so we can warm others.

David Lynch 

Does life feel weird today? Perhaps this is just a David Lynch simulation. His parting gift, if you will. In the end, it doesn’t matter if the world is truth, fiction, heaven, or hell. If you live by a definition, you aren’t living. 

You are the main character. The lead. You have the unique and impossible privilege to alive and human. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. Change course, if you’d like. Maybe it’s the only ride we will ever get. Maybe there are more to come, if we so choose. 

Dive headfirst into those you love and let the madness and magic play out around you. Contribute your soul every day until your very last breath. Stay true to yourself. That is what matters. We will all be ok.

Fight Against Chaos

True love is a challenge your heart is happy to accept. Complacency leads to division; the universe strives for chaos. Fight for your person every single day. 

Your Inventory

Your path is lined with people and things you once thought you could not live without, but did. Take pride in that record and have the courage to add to it when needed. That is your story and it sure is beautiful. 

Personalized Communication 

You can pick up ten cues of how a person prefers to be interacted with within the first minute of speaking to them, if you truly listen. You can then choose to amplify or diminish them. People are only given the power others allow them. 

Personalized communication is of equal importance to personalized medicine. One resides in the soul, the other in science. Uniting the two saves lives.

Insure Yourself

The catch-22 we face is that money dictates society when it holds no value in the next world.

When you die, it will be gone.

The best insurance for this loss is love. 

Cash in at every opportunity. 

It’s Our Time To Save The World 

The universe, inclusive of all time and space in both directions, is simply a bowl of souls. We won’t ever understand why we were given our specific vessel, or why we were placed on this tiny pebble in this given moment. But we are all meant to be here. 

Our generation will decide things. If our miraculous home gets destroyed by our own hand, the universe will move on as if we never were. And with it, the one chance of conscious life. The trial run will be over. 

At least the decision resides with us. It’s supposed to. I’m quite certain we are up to the task.

Child Is Father of the Man

We spend a long time believing the transition from child to adult is the most important, when it’s the return trip that secures immortality. Experience makes us strong, but it does not make us complete. 

Our inner child never dies. It watches us take flight, experience the world in all its wonder and peril. It stands by as we suffer, because it’s the only way to understand that there is more beyond it. And when we are finally open to love, it gently tugs us back home. 

When we return, we unite wisdom with innocence. There is nothing more powerful. Child is father of the man.

AI 

Our society is setting speed records for misinformation. Attention span is at an all time low. Gullibility and division are at an all time high. 

And we’re adding generative AI, a tool that will accelerate all of this hundreds of times over. 

Sounds like bringing a lighter to a gasoline fight.

Hold On Tight 

Strength is less defined by action than by feeling an impulse and holding still. Think about all those times you wish you waited just 5 minutes. There are thousands of similar tests ahead in your life. Win them.

Women 

Women are at the forefront of family, politics, industry, music, and sports. But other than those things men are still in charge.

The Odds Are With You

There is a 1 in 400 trillion chance that you, specifically you, were born. Its true, look it up. About the same probability of blindly winning the lottery over 1 million times in a ROW. 

Given your existance is a miracle, why wouldn’t you treat life the same way? You were clearly made for a purpose and time is just a construct to help us feel less dizzy. Feel free to move in any direction. 

Holy fuck, there is a 1 in 400 trillion chance you even popped out. Go wild with it. 

Be kind to the other miracles, they are equally miraculous.

Be Yourself at Work 

Work titles are employed as a means of power by weak people. We were born without titles. We die without them, too. Live free, work hard, speak plainly.

Silence Is Golden

Don’t be loud if you think quiet is best. Don’t talk just to say something. Don’t cheer along with the masses if you don’t agree with the cause. Inauthentic noise is still noise. Worse, trying to counter the noise makes it louder. 

Too much noise is a negative, especially in support of something negative. Imagine accidentally supporting something that hurts you. You do it daily. So do I. 

Purposeful silence is the stark contrast to noise. It pulls back. It balances. And with enough backing, it wins. 

TL/DR: shut the fuck up when your soul tells you to and make the world a better place.

We Have To Go Back

Your life isn’t about you. Your life is about what you give others. Your life is what others give you. When the two exist in synergy, the idea of self is set aside, and love emerges again. 

Love is our foundation, defined by our genesis and the fact someone carries us from the start. We all have origins in the truest moment of love, whether we like it or not. The pinnacle of abandoning self. For that precious moment, a mother only exists because her child does, and that child cannot exist without her. 

From that moment forth: we spin like tops, talk like idiots, pray, cry, judge, resent, numb, climb impossible ladders, and strive to be different…only to realize none of us are. That moment of realization is the way back to the start.

Worry About You 

Worrying about the thoughts of others is a futile exercise. You’re dedicating valuable resources that at best waste your time, and at worst, ensure they think about you less. You have your people, just continue.

Marriage 

I’ve heard marriage described by some as a prison. If this is prison then strip me naked, cover me in delousing powder, take my possessions and throw away the key.

Sadness is Better Shared

There is life affirming realism in shared sadness with your partner. Love is molded by joy, ironed by despair.

Children

Children are mirrors. They either expose or validate. That depends on you.

Genius 

Love and genius are the same, just different locations. Both create perfect harmony between dissimilar things.

Balance

The rational reasons for anything typically outnumber the irrational ones by quite a bit. They weigh more. They mean more. They are real. 

Its our belief in the irrational reasons that then lends our weight to them. Thus, they become heavier than the rational, and its our contribution that did it. Self sabotage on the tiniest scale.

Exist in the center. Don’t contribute weight. Let life play out on the scales around you. Have the strength to react, adjust, move forward.

Dominoes 

A singular act of kindness to one can domino to many. The same goes for evil. We’re all dominoes in the end. 

We often act like we don’t need each other but we do. 

Every day is a new set. You, and you alone, choose the direction of first impact.

Living Is In The Valley

All that climbing to the moral high ground only to find it’s a lonely place. Our home is the valley. We depend on each other to rise up.

Use Your Paintbrush

The world was built with an unlimited palette of colors. The irony is how often we choose black and white, instead of using the paintbrushes we were born with.

Heaven

Live so that when you die, heaven is indistinguishable from the life you just left.