Posts in Thoughts

I had to identify several areas of my life and rate them on a ten-point scale based on how well they were functioning. I found only two areas (out of 10!) that were working better than a 4. On a ten-point scale!

How many times should women practically give you ways to seduce them? Even though I am against any kinds of generalization, there are few categories of women with whom you may pretty much use similar ways to attract them. This very rough and - let's pretend - impossible classification is based on different levels of emotional and intellectual EQs and IQs of the female you would like to charm.

If we accept as an axiom that the surrounding reality is a product of consciousness and sensations, and that the conscious (aware) component is unconditional, then for any reality to become fully real, it must first be perceived (realized).

I guess I was trying too hard to understand what love is. All the time I had been trying to find myself, my place in life, solving my internal puzzles, and wishing for happiness—I was looking for love. I thought I had a glimpse, a vision of love…visions of love. One vision was that it’s a dimension between two people, a space just for them and nobody else, where they can be together.

My periodic desire to escape from myself has nothing to do with a desire for death or an end to life. It suddenly clicked for me what Eckhart Tolle meant when he said he had wanted to kill himself — and how, in the very moment he realized it, he understood that he didn’t actually want to leave life, but wanted to kill himself — the version of himself he was not.

Today, it suddenly occurred to me why I develop myself. Why I study and learn to be wise, why I develop my projects… It's not just for the sake of enjoying the process of developing projects. There's an important element here — to feel myself in the process.

Whatever we want to achieve, we need to strive to break through — to wherever we can reach. I’m not saying that you need to immediately break down a wall. Not at all.

Once, I was planning to write about a Russian composer and pianist named Oksana. I had already met with her, talked, and taken some pictures of her, so I thought I had everything I needed. But there was no life in that material, something was missing... as if I could not find the key component. Suddenly, I realized what it was!

I believe that gratitude is a great state of mind and heart that can bring you to an awareness and eventually pure happiness. Even during the hardest times, it’s so easy to bring back this great feeling of understanding that your life is actually full of blessing – just by entering this state of gratitude.