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"It is perhaps a humiliating sign of spiritual immaturity that man needs, and wants, a large measure of authority." - Carl Jung

I’m a Bitcoin maxi but I’m having real regret at not following through on buying some Monero this past year as originally planned. True privacy is valuable.

As a child I used to collect these in my grandparents’ back yard here in Eastern North Carolina. They had multiple trees that would be covered with these cicada shells and we would get a bucket and walk around collecting them. I have no idea why I enjoyed it so much, but now, as an adult, I can’t see one without thinking of my grandfather who passed away some years ago. There’s some metaphor and symbolism in there if I wanted to find it, and reading Jung lately, my mind is definitely primed for it. But more importantly, I realize how blessed and fortunate I am to have had a childhood with people who loved me. I grew up in a peaceful and honest place with others who invested in me becoming a successful and virtuous man (with moderate success perhaps). Even at my age now I’m looking forward to telling my grandmother (now 101 years old) that I found a cicada shell in my own back yard. In a time where we fall into emotional channels of unhappiness about things over which we have no control (I am guilty of this as much as anyone), there is so much to be grateful for. This is worth remembering often - keep ownership of your mind and your soul in these times.

We are not required to have an opinion on everything.

"...in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. Let it band together into groups and organizations as much as it likes - it is just this banding together and the resultant extinction of the individual personality that makes it succumb so readily to a dictator. A million zeroes joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one." - Carl Jung

Are all the girls named Roxie gone now? Has that name died out officially?

I’ve been an atheist most of my adult life (a very antagonistic one as well). This quote from the opening of The Rule of St. Benedict has really shifted that in the past couple of years. Stop telling what you know, either out loud or in your own head, and just be quiet and listen - instead of running through all the reasons for something, just ask and listen. Even the quiet observation of what I hear has been impactful in today’s world. I don’t preach to anyone and I still am working on what I believe is true or not - but I would like to find as much truth in this life as possible.

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does” - William James

Whereas resentment is possibly the greatest poison for the human soul, gratitude is instead the soul’s salvation. Gratitude is the ultimate leveler. Actively choose to be grateful today and every day. It is an active choice. From Epictetus Book 2, Chapter 16:

A huge unlock for society would be to select for individuals who do not exhibit high scores for personality disorders like narcissism/borderline/psychopathy/etc. There is no political system that can survive when power selects for these sorts of individuals.