I just learned that Manly P Hall was only 27 when he wrote The Secret Teachings of All Ages and I am shooketh.

this is a reminder for you my brother: life is indeed beautiful. it’s just subject to entropy, that’s all. that’s why it’s so hard. all the good things to be achieved and then maintained as good have to have energy poured into them. shedloads. that’s the law. and you’re being bogged down with drainers and energy-suckers from all angles—work, relationships, news, and most importantly, you. yes, even you are an obstruction to yourself. when will you allow passage for that beautiful energy in you that’s dying for the surface? I assure you, you have it. you have that energy. a terrifying abundance of it. a colossal Übermenschian greek-hero mass of it. it’s all an issue of “removal of blockades.” just don’t let anything get to you. not even yourself. life is indeed very beautiful.

I love when I meet the same genre of girl as me

Life satisfaction is highly consistent with personality traits. The top trait was "Have a lot of fun".

if you are looking for a distraction from monitoring the situation, I can only say good things about this book.

A pretty woman can walk into a room & inherit rivalries she never agreed to participate in. It’s wild how often that happens.

David lynch's soul saw this tweet and said: #SuperLiked

Change is all there is. Constant adaptation, expanding, moving, breaking down, dying, birthing.

The universe loves creation!

The Romans believed a genius was a Spirit and they honored it, made offerings, and left room for its help. Centuries later, German Romantics helped turn genius into something a person was: the extraordinary mind became the source of the work. All the brilliance had to come from within them, and so did the pressure to produce it again. And this is all much bigger than just art inspiration. Einstein spent years with the questions that led him to relativity and Tesla described the solution to a problem appearing while he walked thru a park. The work prepared them to recognize what came. I want to be ready when ideas pop up for a visit. Give it time, take the lovely walk, stay in motion, keep something nearby to write on.

The most magnetic person is a walking contradiction. Someone who forgives easily but simultaneously holds incredibly high standards for themselves and those around them. Shameless and goofy, yet deeply disciplined. This type of person will either inspire others to become more themselves or will trigger those who still deny their own desires.

nothing shuts up your inner critic faster than being creative badly on purpose. when you get ideas out that are messy, stupid, or wrong, the perfectionist monster that lives in your prefrontal cortex and sabotages your flow state gets small. then you can play

Creativity gets rid of anxiety. Anxiety narrows your thinking around “what could go wrong”, it’s storytelling, circling same thought, possible threats. But give it something to make and suddenly it has choices to make, details to notice, a next step to take. Creativity is asking you to generate possibilities and pulling your attention toward what’s in front of you. But anxiety can also make it harder to create. Usually the way out of the loop is to make something badly (an eye sore, appalling even) for 30 mins, or even less, just to get the creative juices flowing again.