Don’t eat comfort food. The comfort is short-lived, the calories are forever. Cultivate contrast in your daily life. Alternate pain and pleasure, hunger and satiation, noise and quiet, anxiety and bliss. Reduce the scale of your food contrasts. Allow simple fare to satisfy by cultivating your hunger for an extra hour before each meal. If [...]
Bliss and Hell are balanced on earth. Bliss is manifest in bliss- bubbles and is balanced by hell-holes. The following are bliss bubbles: Mozart, Chardin, Cezane, The Beatles, LeCorbusier, Louis Kahn, the Kronos Quartet. The following are hell-holes: Jonestown, John Gacy’s crawl space, Jeff Dahmer’s apartment, Auschwitz, The Vietnam War. Rings of fire are combinations [...]
Bliss is not seduction. Bliss requires no polish, it glows from within. There is nothing seductive about a bowl of oatmeal. A healthy mind and a radiant spirit are attractive. Many Americans do not know they are being seduced or they know and don’t care. Children used to be disciplined, deprived and ignored, now they [...]
As there is the notion of positive and negative space in the visual arts, sculpture and architecture as well as music, one can look at life’s problems, roadblocks, obstacles using the trope of positive/negative space. Instead of grappling with a perceived problem or person as a discreet object, look at the variety of space that [...]
If it feels good, don’t do it. Choose the most physically painful / uncomfortable alternative for any action. If your choice is to read a book or walk twelve miles with weights then start walking. If it tastes good – don’t eat it. If it smells good, don’t say hello. If it sounds good – [...]
How might one account for an adult who fails to leave home, fails to develop a strong will, forms a smothering bond with one’s mother and lives with and cares for her until her death? This child is chosen from among his / her siblings. At an early age the parents commence their corrosive gradual [...]