Mytho-logic

Here’s a question I never thought I’d ask: What is the spiritual significance of the Old Testament detail that Noah built the ark in his own backyard? Well, two things. First, if you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, you’ll need no help doing it. To underline that point, Noah was 500 years old when he set to work. On top of that, the entire neighbourhood thought he was nuts. Second, if you’re all about saving the world, you don’t need to go anywhere. Bloom where you’re planted.

Sir Plus

Wanting something obscures the fact that I lack nothing.

Destiny

Destiny isn’t pie in the sky. It’s fulfilled right now. It’s what happens.

Chesed

“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” The archly eloquent polymath Thomas Carlyle wrote that, envisioning work more as a response to a high calling than an eight-hour clock-block of tedium punctuated by episodes of grinding aggro.

Hungry ghosts

The more I get what I want, the more I don’t get what I need. Desires fulfilled are desires intensified. In Buddhism, men devoured by their own appetites are transmogrified into hungry ghosts