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Want less, fulfilled sooner

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Why is it the more we crave, the less content we feel? Everywhere around us, everything tells us to ask for more, aim higher and get more stuff. But does stuff actually fills that hole? Or does it just make it feel deeper, more space to stuff things in. If fulfillment is what we seek, maybe we should do the logical thing. What is shorter than a straight line between two points? A shorter line. So maybe we should stop along the way to that second point. Make more points. Make a shorter line. In short, want less. If we want less, it's likely we can get what we want sooner. Be satisfied sooner. Fulfilled earlier.  And because we are human, we will want more later. Another point along they way. And another. And another. till we reach the other point. 

In the absence of work, success is temporary

We are always told that we need to work hard to succeed. However we are less often told about how success itself needs to be maintained. People often think of success as a destination. That success is in of itself a permanent condition. Experience always prove otherwise. More rather than success and failure is more often than not two sides of the same coin. It can also be a cycle of which success follows  failures and failures follow success.

Self-realization is as scarce as wisdom

Perhaps all wisdom is ... is self-realization.

A great master begins with the mastery of one

Sort of the opposite of the phrase, "jack of all trades, master of none." Was "Journey of Jack of all Trades begins with the mastery one." People who don't want to try something because they are afraid they are not good at it, will always wait. But when is someone good at it the first time, all the time? So try. Be good at it. Repeat.

Idiots who thinks they are right, don't know they are idiots. But whomever knows they are idiots, immediately aren't one.

Stupidity has to be fought, not celebrated. Idiocy has to identified, not identified with.

The least objective thing to do is to objectify.

Being Objective - to not influenced by feelings (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objective) Objectify - to treat as an object (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objectify) The first brings an allure of high-mindedness. It is a desirable trait. The latter isn't one, at least that is what everyday says in public.

Idiots must understand the difference between being righteous and being right.

Being righteous sometime means being wrong sometime, too. Being right means you are right all the time. Being Right doesn't mean you are right, just as being Left doesn't mean you're wrong. Being a right Idiot means being right. Being a Right Idiot means your twice it  An idiot doesn't know how they got it right. An righteous idiot doesn't know how.