Posts in July 28, 2026

Comfortably settled in the passenger seat next to me, little Anna, freckled and glowing, pushed back a stray lock of her red hair and asked: "So, what's your homework?"

It’s a state that has no color or variation. There’s no imprint of what caused this happiness. Whether you ate an ice cream cone or got an A on an exam — sure, the reasons are different, but the happiness itself is exactly the same. Absolutely.

It now has become completely clear to me that connection, closeness, and interaction are very important in my life. Perhaps, this is the most important thing in my life. But (after listening to Transurfing) I now think, maybe it's important because I haven't had much of it in my life. Because I'm quite capricious here - I need it, but only a certain kind. Not just anyone. So, after all, it's not some global desire of the soul, not a goal, but rather a means.

Thank you... Thank you for opening up to me. Even if just a little bit. You are warm. You want to open up, even though you’re scared, just like everyone else. But your desire to open is stronger than your fear.

What is cognitive dissonance? It is the overlay of reality, experienced through personal experience, on a specific paradigm of perceiving this reality.

I had two beliefs, each of which seemed very logical to me and was confirmed by my life experience and other less significant understandings of the world and life. But they didn't want to work together, that is, there was no logic.

You know how it goes – you read, you read about something, you think you understand it, you intellectually grasp it, like, for example, that childhood traumas can affect us throughout our lives, you see how it works, but it doesn't quite sink in completely, it doesn't become part of your foundational knowledge, your understanding of life.

Reality slowly begins to nudge us, that is, to prove that what surrounds us is just a reflection of what is inside us.

The past is a collection of combinations—image-feeling pairs—that illustrate neural connections. Frequent access to this bank of images and experiences is necessary for the cognitive process of self-awareness and the re-evaluation of oneself as an evolving individual.

I read some thoughts by the young Tolstoy – “everything promised to oneself must be done, no matter the cost.” I think that if you take this rule as the foundation of your own morality, you can go really far. It’s not even about the fact that if you keep all the promises you make to yourself, you can achieve much more…