Smart

I went to Harvard as a smart person and came out as a smart person from Harvard. But Harvard didnt make me smart - They selected me because I was smart

Lisa 

marina

there's no other way to do it other than to do it

Marina Elson

July 2022 

Ramit

Accept reality

Make a plan

MOVE 

Win

Win against them.

Win for you. 

Made of

"What are we made of but hunger and rage?"

- Anne Carson

Find our way

We have to find our way to who we are 

Loki Muthu 

You take you

You take you to where you want to go.

Don't rely on anyone else to do that

Not your work

Not your friend

Not anyone else

Only you take you.

You also know where to take to

Nobody knows but you.

You do you

You take you to where you want to go

Work is a game

Play to win the game.

But at the end of the day, it is work.

True work is doing work to see the light of what God put you here for.

That work is true.

Work work is fake, it is a game, sea of characters and players - who come and go - and have no bearing on your inner being. Surely you can't count this experience as adding any true weight to the value of who you are.  

True work is doing the work to uncover you, finding who you are, doing you because you are created in the image of God and your purpose is to be there.  

Problems

Problems make you better

David Carson

What's even better is what's left

Carson David

White so literal maybe not white soul literal

Maybe not quite so literal

Barkley L Hendricks

"I didn't care what was being done by other artists or what was happening around me," he told The Brooklyn Rail. "I was dealing with what I wanted to do. Period."

Clocks

All clocks deceive us 

Sean Scully 

Glaser

There are three responses to a pice of design: yes,no and wow. Wow is the one to aim for.

Milton Glaser


Loki Muthu
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Emerson

"… I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal. The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Experience'

Milosz

Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz

We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn.

A red wing rose in the darkness.

And suddenly a hare ran across the road.

One of us pointed to it with his hand.

That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive,

Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.

O my love, where are they, where are they going

The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles.

I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.

(Wilno, 1936)

Bloom

"… if a poem pierces you enough, in heart and in intellect, and you never really get over it, it qualifies as an immortal wound. Shakespeare (Hamlet) speaks of 'wonder wounded hearers'.. Any poet who wounds you by wonder has given you, probably, an immortal wound.

- Harold Bloom

Mark Strand

Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand

In a field

I am the absence

of field.

This is

always the case.

Wherever I am

I am what is missing.

When I walk

I part the air

and always

the air moves in   

to fill the spaces

where my body's been.

We all have reasons

for moving.

I move

to keep things whole.

Philip Levine

The Second Going by Philip Levine

Again the

day begins, only

no one wants its sanity

or its blinding clarity. Daylight is

not what we came all this way for. A

pinch of salt, a drop of schnapps in our cup

of tears, the ticket to the life to come, a short life of

long nights & absent dawns & a little mercy in the tea.

Support yourself

At the end of the day,
You must be able to support yourself
Roof over your head,
Food,clothes, shelter
And not be dependent on any one else
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You

You are the cause of your own suffering

Don Miguel Ruiz jr

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Creative Vigilance

Idea for book

"[t]here is vigilance to her stories, and great imaginative attention

- on Lydia Davis 

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Short story

A Short Story by Lydia Davis

The Outing

An outburst of anger near the road, a refusal to speak on the path, a silence in the pine woods, a silence across the old railroad bridge, an attempt to be friendly in the water, a refusal to end the argument on the flat stones, a cry of anger on the steep bank of dirt, a weeping among the bushes.

- Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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Win at Work

Are you winning?

How to win?

Work is a game

Play to Win

Winning strategies

Play the game

Learn to play the game

Checklists

Common mistakes and how to rectify

Autopilot Winning Strategies Checklist

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly 

Title for book

Prayer and practice


Loki Muthu
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Prayer and practice

A prayer is an anchor for the day.
Practice, anchor for life.


Loki Muthu
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Prayer

My prayer is a work of art.


Loki Muthu
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I want to

Make something beautiful

Create beautiful things

Live my life

To be

Courses

Just bring one plate of food and get the fuck out of my way!

The courses are nothing but interruptions

Fight

Get used to fighting.

If you don't fight

You will be incapacitated

You will be taken advantage of

You will die.

Get used to fighting

Or get used to giving up

Or get used to dying 

Stand up for yourself

Fight. 

It's a way of life 

You need to get used to it 

Never escape

We will never escape the cruel world…. 

Awareness

When someone is creeping on your boundaries…

Not broke but sheltered

I don't thing you are broken, but you are sheltered 

Exposing my wound

Exposing my wound about avoidance 

I am avoidant 

I hate that I am avoidant and when the consequence happens to me, I get really mad 

Everyday

You have to work on you.

Do your work. 

You came alone.

Do the work alone.

Set time to do work on your own… 

Do YOU loki

Own your life.

Regulate your life.

Be the driver of your life.

Do what makes you happy.

Fuck every one else.

Plan every day like you want it planned.

You come first. 

Your life

Your finances

Your design 

Do not compromise.

That is is the old Loki 

Seek sanctuary

Know who you are

Your feelings come first

Take care of you first

Take care of you.

Do you. 

Boundaries

Boundaries are in the middle…. 

I don’t want to deal with stuff

I don't to be forced to deal with stuff.

I don't want to deal with shit.

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Which is why I want to do God's work

I want to do God's work

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Deal with stuff

If you ignore stuff
If you don't deal with stuff

Stop trying to ignore stuff that you don't want to do…

You have to stop ignoring or hiding away from the things you have to do…

What you have to end:
I have this issue of avoidance with conflicts of my daughter..
I have this issue with avoidance with finances..


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It will have a consequence…

Set your terms

This is how I feel respected.
This is how I feel love.

I matter


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Love and discipline

Love and discipline are not in opposition

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Boundaries

Demand how you need to be treated.

Don't Beg 

Don't beg to be loved.

Gregory of Nyssa

Only wonder makes us fall to our knees 

Gregory of Nyssa 

"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees."

- Gregory of Nyssa

Orient

Orient yourself to your victory and not to their criticism of where you are or what you do 

So estimes we are so bust going that we are not staying.  

Exercise

It's not exercise unless you sweat 

Two good things cancel each other

Bacon wrapped scallops

Surf and turf

Lobster stuffed with crab 

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Lobster is perfectly fine on its own 

Don't need bacon on scallops! They are fine separately 

I don't need some cow on my lobster 

Writing

My writing is like your painting

Loki
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Picking my pocket

Somebody is picking my pocket and I need to know it .

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Look at your credit card bills and your subscriptions… 

Meera

You cannot be Meera about Technology or Cars 

Lisa Denotale

These feet can handle it all

-lisa D 

Gates

For keeping the rich in and the poor out


Loki Muthu
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