In the face of a stressor you are better off psycho physiologically to act voluntarily

Words are a virus

You don't know what the hell is coming at you when you let something new inside the dominance hierarchy, whether it's an idea or a disease.
Words are a virus!

Anything that's outside of the hierarchy is a threat. Any stranger, any strange idea, any animal manifestation, any noise, any spirit,.. it's a threat to the integrity of the dominance hierarchy in many many ways

Anything that is not part of your dominance hierarchy is a snake

Sort yourself out, marshal your arguments and put yourself in order so that when someone pushes you a little further than you should go, you can say no!

Try to say the truth, no matter what, because the alternative is worse. And it is worse!

The ability to speak your truth is the bulwark against hell, and losing your job? That's nothing, compared to where things can go when they go badly

It isn't an alternative political structure that's the countervailing force. It's spoken truth that's the countervailing force

It's not an easy thing to live in a truthful manner but the alternative is hell

There is never a situation that's so bad that there isn't something you can do to make it worse

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

Pay attention and speak the truth

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

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