I Wish Someone Had Told Me This Earlier

Collections from a friend

Once you see it, you may not unsee it.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 — August 25, 1900)

In the island of the blind, a cautionary tale is that the one-eye man did not become the king. He was asked to remove that eye. — Ursa

The message of this lecture is that black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly to another universe. So if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up — there’s a way out.
— Stephen Hawking (8 January 1942–14 March 2018)

1. Life and Death
2. Relationships
3. Hope
4. People
5. Group Dynamics
6. Self Dynamics
7. Education versus Institutionalization
8. Pride, Prejudice and Preferences
9. Net Worth and Self-Worth
10. Sanity and Eudaimonia
11. Paradigm Shift
12. Fate
13. Mind and Methodologies