<aside> 💡 These are ideas that keep coming back. I don’t judge, I only observe which come back the most often. New ideas go to [Waiting room Ideas that keep coming back ](https://www.pawel.world/Waiting-room-9d6bcd463cdc4edbafbae3913c923692) and old to [Archive Ideas that keep coming back ](https://www.pawel.world/Archive-524a7600b0dd4d28a5c5ef4adca6974d) I also sprinkled medals around 🏅 on ones that visit me the most often.
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(note: confidence idk, but I think about it lately) Nature of things is śūnyatā (emptiness), things have no fixed, inherent nature, which is precisely why multiple perspectives on the same thing can each be genuinely true (even opposite ones). A thing isn't locked into one description. And this may apply to teaching. For example a jhanna teacher might tell one student to effort more and another to relax completely. The teaching has no single right form, it's empty too. ~Rob Burbea said something like this in Introduction to Jhanna (1st or 2nd lecture)
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Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously – via theo
The best guiding question in life is, “Who do you want to share this life with?”… My ethics is derived from my desire for good peers – Visa
Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics. – General Omar Bradley
Wants are infinite, the reality is constraints – via Eliezer Yudkowsky
Internet as a self-destructing paper – Gwern
Don’t trust individual papers, trust literatures – via Tyler Cowen
People don't want you to be perfect, what they want is to feel connected to you – via Joe Hudson AoA – Art of Accomplishment
Enlightenment feels like correctness, that every passing second feels correct 🏅 – Aella via interview with Spencer Greenberg on Clearer Thinking podcast (28:29)
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Why would I trust opinion bc its my own? – Julia Galef via Rationally Speaking #143
I don’t see much of a difference between deeply accepting yourself and deeply accepting others. You can’t really accept yourself *conditionally—*if you’re okay only as long as you aren’t “X”, then you’re like the Catholics trying to get into heaven by being good enough – via Aella link
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If you have a plan B means you are failing at plan A – a friend
Beliefs persevere even without any social pressure. … The belief will not change when the reasons are defeated. The causality is reversed. People believe the reasons because they believe in the conclusion … We believe what the people we love and trust believe. This is not a conscious decision to conform by hiding one's true beliefs. It's the truth, this is how we believe. 🏅 – Daniel Kahneman
Had a lot of occasions lately to wonder what truths about myself people are trying to avoid telling me. – Cate Hall on twitter
I am trying to be the dumbest person in the room 🏅🏅
You don’t have a brain with a body, you have a body with a brain 🏅🏅 – Ido Portal
I want to be as publicly vulnerable as possible, because I want to broadcast acceptance towards others. 🏅 – Aella As in, one of the first times I felt deep acceptance from someone else was when I watched them name an unflattering thing about themselves with openness and grace.
Flirt with abandon 🏅 – via ceo