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There is nothing more complex in the cosmos than a human being

Pay attention and speak the truth, your truth!
That's how you keep everything stacked up in order harmoniously
That's how you keep the balance between order and chaos
That's how you articulate your being
That's how you revivify the world
That's how you rescue your dead father from the bottom of the ocean
That's how you adopt responsibility as a citizen
That's how you love a proper life

There is nothing more important than the ability to pay attention

You have to believe things or you could not exist, you could not act. You have to hold on to the dogmatic structure of your belief.
But you have to be open for it's update on a continual basis. That's basically what consciousness is for

Dogma is necessary because it conserves the structure.
Spiritual aspect is necessary because it updates the structure

what scientific truth tells you is what things are, but genuine religious truth tells you how you should act

There is only one reason to remember the past - to be prepared for the future.
What you are supposed to do it to take the past and extract wisdom from it

Write down uncertain things

If people write about uncertain things, past, present or future, so they can be traumatic things, they can be uncertain things, their physical health will be improved

Cortisol makes you old

If you have a memory that's more than 18 month old approximately and when you pull that memory up to mind, if you still have an emotional reaction, that means you have not fully articulated the memory. You have not analyzed it causally, you have not freed yourself from its grasp and you are carrying it like a weight and your brain responds to that. The more baggage you are carrying like that the more stress hormone cortisol your brain produces and cortisol makes you old

It's more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city

If you want to change the world, you should change yourself

Cut the funding to the universities / What the university should be!

Cut the funding of the universities by 25 percent and let the faculty have a war about what's important. And maybe what would be left over is what the university should be!

Simple explanation is a good explanation unless it's too simple but distinguishing between simple and too simple is no easy matter

Things get to terrible places one tiny step at a time

If you are very maternal, you are very compassionate and protective of those that are within your kin boundary

Male human beings are very involved in the raising of their children which makes them quite different than many large animals

Agreeableness is a maternal instinct trait

It's not like any system is perfect, but there's a difference between imperfect and consciously murderous

If your group at some point in the past did something reprehensible then you were de facto responsible in the present for that

As a member of a culture, you are somehow responsible for the past sins of that culture

Inside every human being there is a spark of divinity

Every single person is the center of the world

Every time you make an appropriate moral decision, and you manifest moral courage in the face of your own vulnerability, then you move the world one step farther from the break

every time you make a pathological moral decision, you move the world one step closer to complete annihilation