Dave Young

How To Stop Talking and Start Living

Dave Young — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:00:15 +0000

Some of the easiest money a writer can make are producing articles and books about the "the search" for happiness or enlightenment. There is only one conclusion I can come to from all of this: we must be actively avoiding the answer because we love the quest more than we love the goal. We don't want this search to end.

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No One Likes Football

Dave Young — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 18:10:47 +0000

It is an act of courage to remain unreasonable and unjustifiable except for the pleasure of it. But giving in to logic in this way comes at a price. We instantly dehumanize the notion of socializing and turn it into something justifiable for other reasons.

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Hiding In Plain Sight: The Medium of Stillness

Dave Young — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:44:48 +0000

Something this seemingly elusive must be actively hiding from us; probably hiding in plain sight. In other words, hiding in the place we are least likely to look. As in: the very thing we believe is helping us find this answer is actually what is keeping us from it.

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The Health of Being

Dave Young — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:28:22 +0000

A vibrant and fully alive person is your natural state. That is the description of a state of being, not appearances or even performance. If you’re not experiencing that state now, it is only because something unnatural is going on in and around you.

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How We Avoid Enlightenment

Dave Young — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:05:42 +0000

We've all heard about the vows of silence taken by devout and reclusive monks as a way to achieve enlightenment. That long-standing strategy suggests that there is something about language that creates an obstacle to self-discovery.

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