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Recent belief system upgrade: Life is so rich when you hold contradictory or paradoxical beliefs. The more the better. blue is my favorite color. revel in the sky's delight I hate blue and it makes me sad. act on it! toss a blanket over the blue water bottle when you sleep.
Play lightly. Forget wrong or right. Metaphors are glue. Metaphors are key. Take belief as a totality and you delude. play lightly. forget wrong or right. take a bite of a metta sandwich. listen to archetypes stomp around in your soul feel hope's warmth feel hope's cold
where did this rock go? rock sized hole or hole sized rock? https://t.co/4UkLOIDyV7
The point, if there's one, is that I've taken a lot of what I believe seriously and sought self-consistency. That's made life feel like chess: I've got 16 pieces but only 3 of them can move. Next 5 moves are decided and the present moment is just "playing out the middle game"
add a healthy dose of chaos and contradiction! now we can't take the board positions seriously: the knight is a Trojan horse hiding jelly beans inside and the pawns are chocolate ice cream Surprise isn't checkmate-threat, it's a chromatic riff in an otherwise-melodic chorus ✨
