Your real resumé is a painful recounting of all of your struggles. - Naval Ravikant

Not everyone is religious, but everyone seeks a source of moral authority beyond the self.

At the very least, I do not want my sense of self to continue to develop and strengthen as I get older. I want it to be weaker & more muted so I can be more in present everyday reality, accept nature & the world for what it is, & appreciate it very much as a child would.

The great viruses of our time spread through minds, not through bodies.