Elias

I don't know if you know this book, but chances are you never came across this particular translation, which I think is the most beautiful one existing so far. I'm talking about the Tao Te Ching.

I've usually thought about infinity as infinity in space. Well, first I started knowing about infinity in numbers. Then I thought of it in terms of distance.

Now I think of it in terms of time.

I was standing in the shower, spraying myself down with a pressure sprayer that I believe was originally built for spraying pesticides or herbicides – poison.

I had only two or three litres of hot water in it, just enough to spray myself for 10-20 minutes, just enough to get clean. It didn't feel dignified, and being on a mushroom trip, I decided to let that feeling sink in a bit.

“I have something for you to chew on, I think it's one of the biggest paradoxes of our modern time,” my friend Kenneth announced to me yesterday.

“Now you got my curiosity, please continue,” I replied.

Culture, at its core, might simply be how humans experience themselves and each other. In its broader sense, culture is also everything we do and create, and in its broadest sense, it's everything we have ever done and created and ever will do and create.

It has been almost two years since I listened to the 1956 book “The Art of Love” by Erich Fromm. It seems like it took a while for me to wrap my head around it.

“I see fire,” she said with her eyes closed. “I feel like my skin is burning but I can't move, I think I'm stuck.”

I'll just shortcut this post by posting this beautiful two hour conversation of David Eagleman with Sadhguru:

It feels like there's a fine line between impostor syndrome and justified self-doubt and modesty. Often I feel like almost anyone could do my job if only they threw a bit of effort onto it and there's not much talent involved.

But the fact that I tend to overlook is that few people do throw the same amount of effort at the same problems, and because of that I'm probably indeed a valuable expert.