Short Scribble 39

They say be yourself and do not compromise yourself or dilute your essence to accommodate anyone else. It has to be understood that identity is tied deeply to a value system but not to something like desires which are just volatile in nature. Irrespective of the number of sacrifices you make in terms of not having certain things your way you only lose yourself when you compromise on your value system. If you consider valuing yourself as part of your value system then you will have to elaborate it to yourself.

Your system itself will recognise and react if it notices that you are being taken advantage of. The part that is harder to realise is recognising the compromise of your value system as against simply taking advantage of you. We all have our thresholds. We will realise it soon or later and come to our own defence and we will notice that sometime may have been lost but you are not losing ourselves in that. School there is value in saving some of that time but is not the meaning of losing yourself. 

To lose yourself is to not adhere strictly to your value system. That is where the definition of self lies.

Short Scribble 38

 There are no short answers to any "why". It's always subjective and requires lengthy explanation.

Sorry Scribble 37

Reading takes away as much as it gives. It tramples upon a mind that's filled with ideas of the contract of reading brings in ones that overlap with ideas already present in the mind. It rewires sacred lines of thinking before they are recorded and can bury ideas so deeply that they're lost to you forever. Or it can alter what you'd originally thought of - or worse, slap another's name onto an idea you'd come up with - albeit one that existed already in literature, and puts you in a position where you must quote the one who claimed its ownership before you by publishing it, just so that your statement received objective validity.

Reading is as destructive as it is creative.

I believe completely in emptying yourself of your own ideas to the best extent you can through writing before you pick a single book.

Short Scribble 36

 A clear mind is a rare find.

The present moment is all you have now. Don't waste time wanting something else.

Short Scribble 35

 When consciousness is wounded, imprinting on another piece of consciousness is the medicine.

Basking in compassionate attention can heal.

Short Scribble 34

 Intelligence is discipline of organizing and applying memory to thought, not something surreal.

Organized thought is intelligence.

Short Scribble 33

 Sanity is the semblance of a shared reality.