In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.