Adrian Black

All you've got to do is breathe

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

Whose fucking permission are you waiting for? Go do your thing. You're going to die

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

It's a simple fact of life: if you want to do something incredible, something that makes you stand out above the rest, then you have to become comfortable being different—that means being misunderstood, criticized, even hated.

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

"I have left myself in the hands of existence. If it can manage millions of stars, millions of planets, millions of solar systems... I am just an ordinary man... It can manage life for me too."

~ Osho

[Lucid Dreams @sanjabh]

“Ego means self identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of ‘me’ based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.”

- Eckhart Tolle

[Adrian Black @adrianblack]

@TheBishF1 @Motor_Sport Awesome. Räikkönen Portugal 2020 also a favourite.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

View from the highest point on Earth.

This is the closest a human can get to space while still touching the ground.

From here, the Earth ceases to be a landscape and starts to look like what it actually is.

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.”

Albert Camus

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Mathematics

Smile. 23 factorial is precisely 23 digits long. It also has a nice-looking "888" at the center.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Teslas are designed & engineered from first principles

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

People who think they don't have enough time actually usually don't have enough depth of thought, they are impulsive and emotional, they end up making a lot of unnecessary mistakes, and spend the rest of their lives fixing them instead of working on real problems.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

A lot of success boils down to whether you can figure out how to build and stay in an environment where you will consistently retain enough quiet time alone to reflect on who you truly want to be when untainted by groupthink and peer pressure, then invest in yourself accordingly.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

The speed of light visualized on a world map.

Credit: James O'Donoghue

[isotta.m @isotta_m]

Ci sono giorni in cui il mare è una necessità

[Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺 @im_Mateus_]

Alan Watts poses a question that stops you in your tracks:

"Suppose you are God, suppose you have all time, all eternity, and all power at your disposal. You were given the power to dream any dream you wanted to dream every night, what would you do?"

He walks through what would happen, step by step.

At first, you'd fulfil every wish imaginable. "You would have all the pleasures you could imagine: the most marvelous meals, the most entrancing love affairs, the most romantic journeys. You could listen to music such as no mortal has heard and see landscapes beyond our wildest dreams."

You'd spend night after night in paradise. Maybe a whole month of nights.

But then something would shift. Perfection would get boring.

"You'd begin to think, 'Well, I've seen quite a bit. Let's spice it up. Let's have a little adventure.'"

So you'd introduce danger. You'd rescue princesses from dragons, engage in battles, become a hero. And as time went on, you'd push further and further.

Then comes the real turning point. Watts explains:

"At some point in the game, you would say, 'Tonight I am going to dream in such a way that I don't know that I'm dreaming,' so that you would take the experience of the dream for complete reality."

You'd forget you were God entirely. You'd dream yourself into poverty, disease, agony not out of cruelty, but for the contrast. For the moment you wake up and realise none of it was real.

"And you would say, 'Wow man, that was a gas.'"

Then Watts delivers the punchline:

"How do you know that that's not what you're doing already? You sitting there with all your problems, with all your whole complicated life situation it may just be the very dream you decided to get into."

And his final line reframes everything:

"If you like it, crazy; if you don't like it, what fun it'll be when you wake up."

It's a perspective that doesn't dismiss suffering. It recontextualises it. What if the struggles, the uncertainty, the messiness of life aren't things happening to you, but experiences you chose for yourself?

What would change about how you approach today if you believed you'd chosen this exact life on purpose?

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Accept this: You don't have to prove anything to anybody, ever. Including yourself.

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

[🫧 Laurent Potelle 🐝 🔻 @Laurent_Potelle]

« Mais l’étoile se dit : Je tremble au bout d’un fil.
Si nul ne pense à moi je cesse d’exister. »

Jules Supervielle

[Cohérence @coherence_e]

« Que d'hommes se pressent vers la lumière non pas pour voir mieux, mais pour mieux briller. »
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jim Carrey describes a profound, sudden awakening: One day, after studying Eckhart Tolle, he "woke up" and realized thought is illusory—an illusion largely responsible for suffering.

In that instant, he stepped back: "Who is aware that I'm thinking?"

This shifted perspective into vast freedom—expansive, no longer trapped in a separate self, body, or problems.

"I was bigger than what I do. I was bigger than my body. I was everything and everyone. I was no longer a fragment of the universe. I was the universe."

The state comes and goes like riding a wave—sometimes on, sometimes off—but the knowing remains: this is the direction, and he wants to bring as many people along as possible because "the feeling is amazing."

A raw glimpse into non-dual realization from one of Hollywood's most iconic figures.

Have you ever had a moment where the illusion of the separate self cracked—even briefly—and what stayed with you?