This laundry list written by Sheldon Kopp is a list that has impacted my philosophy about life. From, If You Meet Buddha on The Road, Kill Him, by Sheldon Koop,
- This is it!
- There are no hidden meanings.
- You can’t get there from here, and besides, there is nowhere else to go.
- We are all already dying, and we will be dead for a very long time.
- Nothing lasts.
- There is no way of getting all you want.
- You can’t have anything unless you let go of it.
- You only get to keep what you give away.
- There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things.
- The world is not necessarily just. Being good does not pay off and there is no compensation for misfortune.
- You have a responsibility to do your best none-the-less.
- It is a random universe to which we bring order.
- You don’t really control anything.
- You can’t make anyone love you.
- No one is any stronger or any weaker than anyone else.
- Everyone is, in their own way, vulnerable.
- There are no great men.
- If you have a hero, look again, you’ve diminished yourself in some way.
- Everyone lies, cheats, and pretends. –
- All evil is potential vitality in need of transformation
- All of you is worth something if only you will own it.
- Progress is an illusion.
- Evil can be displaced, but never eradicated, and all solutions breed new problems.
- Yet, it is necessary to keep on struggling towards solutions.
- Childhood is a nightmare.
- Each of us is, ultimately, alone.
- The most important things, each man must do for himself.
- Love is not enough, but it sure helps things.
- We have only ourselves and one another. That may not be much’ but that is all there is.
- How strange, that every so often, it all seems worth it.
- We must live with the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial powers, and partial knowledge
- All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.
- Yet we are responsible for everything we do.
- No excuses will be accepted.
- You can run, but you can not hide.
- It is most important to run out of scapegoats.
- We must learn the power of living with our helplessness.
- The only victory lies in surrender to oneself.
- All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
- You are free to do whatever you like, you need only face the consequences.
- What do you know, for sure, anyway?
- Learn to forgive yourself, again, and again and again, and again and
- again and again and again and again.
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