<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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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