Suffering comes from comparing what is to my personal preferences.
An alternative is to compare what is, to nothing.
99.99999% of the universe is made up of nothing.
So how good is this moment in comparison?
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One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.