Check on your friends / family Life is precious. Self-inflicted wounds can be prevented. “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.” -David Foster Wallace

“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.” -Jack Kerouac

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Cicero

Free the mind

Interesting find yesterday Under the shade of a tree with my feet in the water is where you can find me

Don’t let the world tell you who you ‘should’ be. Figure out who you always were Don’t wake up one day, only to realize that the role you were playing came at the expense of being yourself

In the age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. -Pico Iyer

No one is closer to God than the one experiencing pain that transcends human understanding. Seek these people and ask them to pray for you

My legacy will not be measured by arbitrary monetary metrics. It will be measured by the impact I’ve had on the lives of those around me

Existing independent of the state is deemed a ‘crime’. How do you do my fellow ‘criminals’? Happy Saturday

“It is becoming more and more obvious that it is not starvation, not microbes, not cancer, but man himself who is mankind’s greatest danger, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes.” -Carl Jung

Your mere existence should be a “fuck you” to the system Fuck the system everyday in every way Free the Mind

The greatest returns I have received in life are a direct result of helping others

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I just opened a bag of chips and it was as stale as a Baptist church