“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” Harry S. Truman
I lost the game
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
- H. H. Dalai Lama
I totally agree. Worrying, as an action, is useless. Worry as a feeling, an emotional signal, is useful.
Worry is like a messenger from your subconscious. It’s a signal there’s a gap between your opportunity and your action. As soon as you see the worry, you can turn it off by getting back in line with your conscience.
Worry is part of “the wisdom to know the difference”. It indicates you haven’t yet determined which of those two it is: a thing you can change, or a thing you can’t.
So worrying is useless, in the same way sitting there listening to an alarm bell is useless. The alarm is a useful signal. Indulging in it is not.
Shut off the alarm and address the problem. In this case the problem is not “something I value is gonna get hurt”. It’s “something I value is gonna get hurt, and I don’t yet know whether I should be doing something about it or not”.
The best way out the is:
worry -> map out the problem -> [branch] (help how you can OR accept it)
You can pluck the worry out of your mind if you’re a skillful meditator. Just kill it like a computer process. But it will come up again until you remove its root, which is vagueness about the line between “the courage to change things I can” and “the serenity to accept yhe things I cannot”.
So, like I said, worry is a component of “the wisdom to know the difference”. It is that wisdom’s triggering mechanism.
In my opinion, at least.
Are you influenced by a buddhist lineage?
Change your perspective… and the reality changes!
That’s what a daycare npc told me in Pokemon Black. Although I haven’t really found much use for the quote, it has stuck with me for long.
Reality is the cross product of the matrix of conditions and the vector of one’s own perspective.
Don’t do what you think you have to do… only do what you absolutely must do
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
That’s a pretty accurate way of looking at things.
I doubt.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine came from a Republican family. He once told me “You think that if it would be nice that a thing were true, that means it is true”.
It took me a long time to understand what he meant, but I finally do, and he was spot on with how my philosophy worked.
When working on an office, it’s great and all that you have “the power of accurate observation” but god our Debbie downer is insufferable.
Aren’t you confusing cynicism with skepticism?
No, “those” people are
We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.
15:85 Quran
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Blood of the Martyr”
Oi oi oi. Me gotta hurt in here. Me smell a ting is near. Gonna bosh, and gonna nosh, and then the ting will disappear.
— Uthden Troll
Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Anarchist”
David Foster Wallace: You’ll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
/* It might ‘caring’ rather than ‘worrying’, I’m not sure, and can’t be bothered finding the book to check it.
It’s also possible that DFW didn’t coin this phrase.
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing more of.”
-also Hunter S. Thompson, probably
Though there are questions as to its veracity, “a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad”. As an artist, this is the reason I’ll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.
“To know which questions are unanswerable, and to not answer them: this is the skill that is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula LeGuin has definitely seen some shit
Being a socialist living under capitalism will do that to you.
lol not politics I mean some shit. Pretty sure she survived a nuclear holocaust in a parallel dimension, at least
Don’t let quotes tell you what to think.
- Gnorv
- Wayne Gretzky
This too shall pass.
No matter how good or bad your life is, there will ways be change.
That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.
I’m paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of
‘Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad’
The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here’s the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said “just know this too shall pass.”
This. Temporariness is temporary. Soon everything will be permanent.
I mean the “this too shall pass” part. When people say the quote, usually it’s the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.
It won’t be that way forever though
I’m a simple man:
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
Based pooh
