What the m*nd?

…I’m just what you made God… /// Just what I am by Kid Cudi

“As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.”

—   Pema Chodron (via lazyyogi)

“Does the realization of the absurd require suicide?” Albert Camus asked “No. It requires revolt,” he answers.

Sad truth

Why is it so that any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in the modern society today?

Great documentary on DMT, “the spirit molecule”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4FaDMak-TQ

Great Designers

Great products don’t spring from great designers like Athena from the skull of Zeus; instead, they were usually the result of a lot of trial and error, missteps and blind alleys, and hard work and deep thinking. There’s no secret sauce. Great designers aren’t those with the most natural talent, or the smartest, or can draw the best. Great designers are those who’ve designed great products, period. And the only way to design those is the hard way. And while you might have a vision of how the product should be right from the start, it takes a lot of work to get it right. You have to explore. You have to prototype. You have to test. You have to see it live. You have to see someone using it. Only then do you get a refined design. No one gets it right the first time. - Dan Saffer

Be happy, make happy and find truth

To continue to always explore the world and to find the truth within it, while always doing what makes me and people in the world happier. - my personal statement

Inaction is the greatest cause of failure

The conventional western upbringing discourages present moment aesthetic experience, and mandates the incessant use of left-brained thinking mind. There is nothing wrong with utilizing your analytical capacity; the problem is simply how much of our “thinking content” is instilled in us through education and media. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the vast majority of human thought and conversation is profoundly unoriginal.

“Let me let you in on a little secret: if you are hearing about something old, it is almost certainly good. Why? Because nobody wants to talk about shitty old stuff, but lots of people still talk about shitty new stuff, because they are still trying to figure out if it is shitty or not. The past wasn’t better, we just forgot about all the shitty shit.”

—   Frank Chimero

“Concrete problems have answers that are solutions, but the best one can hope for with a squishy problem is a temporarily successful response.”

—   Frank Chimero