25lines, redux

in the quiet of night the mind grows unquiet. i am unable to sleep, but i am not fully awake. my life dissolves into a stream of paradoxes. the stress and pressure consume me, my inner peace is shaken. but outwardly i am calm like a bomb. ready to go off at any time, but [...]

to err is human. to forgive is divine. …but i am human. in the past i have taken the attitude that i should not tolerate more than a single transgression. today’s enlightened thinkers would tell me that i should be more accepting. that everyone makes mistakes. and i admit that for most people this is [...]

Him: i dunno- i think a part of me dies when i dont know whats happening in my world Me: huh interesting well i strongly suggest sometime some block of time i’ve done it for weekends where you unplug and quiet your mind … you’ll be surprised what you tell yourself when no one else [...]

“I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done.” — Steve Jobs. It flies in the face of Twain: “The only things you will regret are the things you didn’t do” Both should be carefully contemplated. I currently regret very little, but I have regretted much [...]

watched a TED talk this week at work that talked about living to 100. One of the points was to be a part of an awesome community. Reminded me of how I was always told to surround myself by people better than me. And that I do, very well too, when I try. And the [...]

Step 1: Potential. http://www.hypeless.net/25lines/?p=836 Step 2: Reality The ability for someone to think about their reality, accept it, and dissect it is paramount if one is to let go of their fear, doubt, and self-hindrance. The most basic element of life, of understanding one’s existence is to think about the state of the world. It’s [...]

Opportunity cost is very important to understand. In doing anything, there is the cost of the opportunities that you’re otherwise forsaking. If you’re working, you could be having fun instead. If you’re having fun, you could be working. So it brings out a multiplicative duality in all that we consider and do. This extends far [...]

This song has been making me feel a welling kind of lament. Partly missing Japan, partly missing the feelings from that time, partly from listening to the lyrics (which I’ll admit, I mostly rarely do…) What happened here? The butterfly has lost its wings The air’s too thick to breathe And there’s something in the [...]

Today was an ordinary day of conversations with people. I thought I’d share some of them with you, since most people only ever see few dimensions of me. I thought I’d try sharing more. Most of it is just me spewing nonsense. Enjoy! —– Me: the undisciplined mind will seek to consume everything you must [...]

Knowing a little about everything means you are interesting to most, in a bounded sense. And you’re never bored. Knowing a lot about a few things means you are very interesting to few people. But with those, you can interact with great depth. Intensity. If you can master just one thing, you can become infinitely [...]

Muse |myoōz| noun (in Greek and Roman mythology) each of nine goddesses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who preside over the arts and sciences. • ( muse) a woman, or a force personified as a woman, who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist. What do I take from the muse? What [...]

The new year is a socially accepted time for change. A somewhat forced introspection and stock taking. When you mistakenly write 2009 and you have to fix it, you Remember. In school, the break away from most peers was sufficient to excuse large changes. The winter break, shorter, meant that you could change but there [...]

We drop in, fallen, dropping from the sky. An aluminum body holding us in sunlight, falling with a daring grace through cloud cover and darkness. Onto another plane, smooth and polished to catch us, falling. The airport has always been the lungs of the city. Breathing in and out, lunging people inward or expelling them [...]