33 Thoughts for 33 Years.
Maxims, ideas, and a couple banger quotes.
I turn 33 today...
Officially, some time around 10:20pm for you astrology nerds. 😉
Writing this deep in the Mayan jungles of Mexico, tucked away at the holy grounds of Kumankaya. Who would've thought that I would be here on my birthday (& my parents anniversary–same day!), in the early start of a multi-year apprenticeship? Not me.
Following a trend I started last year (32 Reflections for 32 Years), I'm sharing some reminders, quotes, and ideas that resonate.
No rhyme nor reason to what made the list—they're just present in my experience.
It feels good to grow older. I feel my medicine building. I feel purpose. It’s only getting better. Here we go:
- F*ck what you say.
- “If you feel far from God—who moved?” – Afghan proverb.
- “Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Alice, Alice in Wonderland.
- The opposite of suicide exists.
- The heart knows the way.
- ”There are only two mistakes along the way of self-mastery: not starting, and not going all the way.” — Shi Heng Yi
- Long live the underground.
- The sound of the rain needs no translation.
- All limitations are self-imposed.
- “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” ― Thucydides
- Courage is the first and final virtue. Act accordingly.
- Move toward resistance.
- Your life is not a test that you can fail.
- Free men don’t ask.
- The righteous path is straight and narrow.
- Do not decorate your pain.
- Do the best you can until you know better. Once you know better, do better.
- Martyrdom is not a virtue.
- Everything is energy management.
- “You may abandon your body, but you must always preserve your honour.” — Miyamoto Musashi
- How you do anything is how you do everything.
- Do not sacrifice the meaningful for the expedient.
- You do not have enough Bitcoin.
- “We, half dust, half deity.” – Lord Byron
- “Solvitur Ambulando.” It is solved by walking.
- You didn’t come this far to only come this far.
- “Rituals are to time what home is to space: they render time habitable.” — Byung-Chul Han
- Real beauty is modest and real wealth is silent.
- “Historically, the most terrible things; war, genocide, and slavery, have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn
- Until death, all defeat is psychological.
- “Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” ― Pericles
- “Tradition is not the past, but that which does not pass.” – Dominique Venner
- I love you. Thank you. Well done. Keep going.
Until next year,
EB. 🍃