Everything feels distant from me --- youth, glory, wealth, and health but the one thing that consoles me, the one thing that keeps me going, is having experienced true unconditional kindness, an immense, almost inhuman tenderness from people who don't even know my name.

When God gives you capacities it is for the purpose of using them, and using them well, on the sacred world around you. When you waste them or use them solely for selfish or unwholesome reasons, you invite detriment. You lose the light. You forget, regret, becoming resentful, sour. We come here with stories and purposes. Some people have the hands, others the words, some the eye, some the spirit, some the minds, some the bodies, some the luck or the wealth or the time. Some have it all. You cannot let it sit and rot.

Tell the truth. Whatever cunning alternative heuristic you have is worse.

The core of religion is not belief, but embodiment. If you do not hold something so deeply that it compels you to act in the world, then you do not truly believe it at all, lived reality, not idle assent, you must have an air of 'LARP' or you believe in nothing at all.

Action produces information. If you're unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it's the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.

I don't love you anymore; on the contrary, I detest you. You are a vile, mean, beastly slut. You don't write to me at all; you don't love your husband; you know how happy your letters make him, and you don't write him six lines of nonsense... Soon, I hope, I will be holding you in my arms; then I will cover you with a million hot kisses, burning like the equator.

It's easy to become jaded. Don't do it. If you have an open heart eventually someone will stab it. Such is the way of things. It's worth the pain because the alternative is being cold, closed off, and thus alone. You need to feel even if it hurts. That's living. That's real life. Stop trying to numb yourself. You need to feel the pain fully if you want to feel joy fully.

You are born in a world of literal blind, bitter, monsters in human form, and if love is to exist at all, it must be violently wrested from the marrow of their darkness, torn into being by force, pried from the jaws of a beast.

Excessive shyness, too great a sadness upon failure, great care for the opinions of the world, and so on are manifestations of pride. A sort of seemingly low and unambitious pride, and all the more repulsive for it: pride in perfectly fulfilling a nature lower than one's own.

I have nothing in common with anyone, I have never felt the urge to belong, I have never felt the itch of being part of "something greater," that warm, mammalian crawl of futile proximity means nothing to me.

Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because --- and this is a direct quote --- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify". I have thought about this every single time that I've worked out since.

I attract a lot of truly insufferable people because my radical sincerity is so difficult to accept that they interpret it as irony.

Suicide is a temporary solution to a permanent problem.

The simple, fundamental difference between you and me is that I am a genius who is right about everything, while you are a retard who is wrong about everything.

There was a japanese man named Kotoku Wamura, mayor of a small town, Fudai. He spent much of his political capital insisting that an absurdly high 51ft floodgate was built. For decades it was regarded as a waste and mocked; waves that tall were almost unheard of. Until the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami of 50-65ft hit, when the entire town was saved, with neighboring villages completely destroyed.

He was among the few old enough to have witnessed the 1933 tsunami as an adult, and he swore to himself he'd never let his loved ones suffer the same fate again. He passed away before the 2011 tsunami. At his retirement, Wamura stood before village employees to bid farewell: "Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. In the end, people will understand."