The comprehension of truth through revelation and illumination of darkness is good because such a bright and pleasant event strongly sinks into the memory and is not forgotten. Truth, grasped casually and without theatrical effects, seem to be dreadfully commonplace, something to love, to trust and to remember them is not desirable.
If news makes you wonder, shocks you or annoys you... or even makes you glad, than there's a 99 per cent probability it's all not true or distortion of facts. As real life is full of humdrum things, stability and rationality of its events and there's too little space for wonders. Wondering is an element mostly referred to show and entertainment.
The city… all here is the same and usual everyday and wonderful; like usually all noses are long, and are loudly blown; the same backs bend, the same feet go somewhere and like usually the tongues are long, wearing the same words outward.
And you know, it's rubbish that the king is naked, the queen in a king's clothes - it's her that worries me.
Pawns, knights, bishops and even officers - all this nude crowd put on dresses the king's clothes and now amuse each other singing warbles.
Love is wonderful. They say love is a creation out of nothing, but it is a lie. Rather, this creation comes from very small and ordinary, very inexpensive and ordinary. A perfectly fine man can come out of a sperm, an egg, hundreds of tons of grain, and a couple dozen good books.
Bits of truth are commonplace, and where they are, they are inexpensive. Your task is to buy inexpensive silk, brocade, beads and various fabrics in places where there are many of them and sew them beautiful beautiful dresses... putting the pieces together.
To stop being afraid of death and life, you have to realize that everything is for the best... For this I recommend you read Candide, Voltaire. Everything in this life is ordinary, especially suffering.
Inside closely, people, like squirrels in a cage, live in the narrow framework of the conventions and patterns as the air they do not have freedom... Any person, tearing of the chain of conventions and templates, they seem amazingly free and beautiful hero. People love heroes. The hero is the one who carries freedom from the shackles of everyday life.
It is possible to eat and it is pleasure, but it is not necessary to look for food tastier. You can dress and it will save from the cold, but do not look for exquisite and beautiful clothes.
Give up the habit of snacking on the run, food should not be commonplace. Food is a celebration, food is a pleasure, food is a reward for good work. He who works eats.
The key to the door to the next level can be hidden in three places. Either on the path of least resistance, or the greatest... or somewhere near them. Often the most valuable things are hidden in the most visible place under the guise of ordinary things.
Simultaneity is when you always look at familiar things as the first time. The ability to see beauty in the ordinary is an infinite source of energy for the human mind.
If we consider the allegory of the transformation of water into wine, then we can talk about a paradigm. Jesus gave people a vision of the beauty of being. Water is wine, water is beautiful. It made it possible to see joy in the everyday.
The fact that you are perfect and beautiful should not create megalomania inside you. The tree is also perfect, so what? Beauty and perfection are the ordinariness of our world. Our whole world is perfect.
Lucky is the one who is lucky, because he does his business in a working and routine mode, without giving things super-value and without much desire. This situation is useful because there is no fear.
You see around you the limited, the petty, and the meaningless... You look into the distance and see something huge there, but when you get closer to it, you see details, and they become small, everyday and meaningless. Intelligence and maturity is the ability to see the vast before you... in the mundane and limited.
Magic, it's very ordinary... Real magic is utilitarian and very ordinary. Miracles are not above, but below. Miracles are simple, publicly available, lying underfoot and not needed by anyone...
You are very tense in conversations, somehow overly cheerful, overly positive (at the initial stages of the conversation) try to seem cheerful, positive, cheerful... This is visible from the outside and seems fake. You need to underestimate the importance of the conversation and the one with whom you are talking. Be simpler, softer... mundane, boring... If you are tense or something seems serious and important to you, stand aside and laugh for ten minutes at yourself and what seems serious to you. Such concepts as seriousness and importance are the mortal sin of pride.
To accomplish the feat and become a hero is not difficult. Being a hero is very easy. It's hard not to be a hero. The real hero is the one who has pacified the hero and can now live without the euphoria that heroism brought to him. A real hero is a hero of monotonous everyday life, a person who knows how to enjoy ordinary life. An ordinary person is joyful, and the hero is a drug addict.
The block is ready. Bring your head here! The end of the reign of the bright mind over the miserable narrowness of ordinary judgments. They say the carpenter's son was love, but how could love be so arrogant?
The idolater does not love man, but the ideal. When the ideal breaks down into the ordinary, there will be an ordinary person, whom the idealist cannot stand. The idealist has plenty of ordinary women, but he doesn't like them. When the idol is broken, there will be an ordinary woman. This is one scenario. Or another scenario, when a man will be very offended that he is not loved, not appreciated, insulted, etc.
What seems boring and uninteresting to you, when you get used to it and get into the habit, will become boring and uninteresting. good, useful and joyful. And what you thought was very interesting and joyful, turning into a habit, will deteriorate and become commonplace. Habit turns good into bad, and turns bad into good.
People are proud of excess. To be proud of one's nature is foolish. That is, people are proud of their imperfection, and perfection is commonplace for them.
Given that perfection, in which there is nothing superfluous, is commonplace, then the path of perfection is the path of doing ordinary things. Doing ordinary things, without unnecessary feats, goals and pride, a person achieves perfection.
The way of Tao is in the mundane. In service to the family and the state. Chopping wood and carrying water. In the service of dreams and love. The essence of Tao is meaningful service, accompanied by a sense of duty and joy.
The problem is desire. The problem is that you want to fulfill your wish. This is what prevents you from fulfilling your desire. You just have to serve perfection, discovering its new facets. This is the path of routine and duty, in which there is no fear and desire, but there is immortality.
The secret is constancy and ordinariness. Extension is truth, and ordinariness is the path to perfection. Constancy is super effective, it generates an exponential curve that degenerates into a candle. This candle is a unit.
Study a foreign language is an excellent simulator for setting and achieving goals. There is a distant goal. There are a huge number of intermediate goals that require concentration. There is a task to turn it into a ritual and routine. There is a need for looping, repetitions and rollbacks.
The problem with losers is that they don't know how to walk on air. The loser wants to cross the sea in one step. A loser needs some wings. The loser does not know that air is water, and you need to walk on water with small steps. When you walk on water, you don't have to try to walk on water. You are a fish, for you water is your home, like air for a bird, and space for a planet. This is all routine, which has no meaning. It doesn't matter how, but it does matter where you want to go. Just move in the right direction and do not bother your head with stupid questions.