Posts in Thoughts

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.

The production of the hormone of happiness is provoked by what is called mindset - thoughts, roughly speaking. In other words, happiness is born in relation. This is a priori. What kind of attitude is needed to be happy and to produce this hormone of happiness.

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).

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.

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!

Our main mistake is that when we have ideas that inspire us, we wait for our minds to clearly define what we want. And we do nothing.

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.

I have been listening to a series of interviews with James Ray, who participated in the movie "The Secret." As always, he gives a lot of analogies, and I love analogies as visuals: I can immediately imagine the mechanism of what is actually happening and remember the metaphorical meaning.

I was completely shaken by this movie. For some reason, this time I didn't anticipate that he would choose to solve the problem in this particular way...

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!