Clean Up Your Room (2019 ver.)
You've gotta be oriented towards something
Because otherwise you're disoriented
You just spin around in circles
And then you suffer
And so do people around you
It's not a good solution
Orient yourself towards something
You have to figure out what it is
What will work for you
What goal would justify the suffering of your life
Start trying to piece that together
You're going to get better at it
But it's a personal process
So, you need a personal place to stand
Because otherwise you're going to bе handed
A place to stand on a plate
And it may bе one that makes you a puppet
Of someone else's goals
So, I would say, you know, what are the processes
Well, I think what I've recommended to people is
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That's a good start, organize your local landscape
Schedule your time
Start taking control of yourself
See if you can stop saying things you know to be lies
That's not the same as telling the truth
You don't get to do that to begin with
Because you’re not good enough yet to even attempt it
In some sense
But everyone can stop saying things
They know to be falsehoods
Stop saying things that violate your conscience
Here's another idea
Stop saying and doing things that make you feel weak
Just, all you have to do is pay attention to that
Some things you do will make you feel disintegrated
It's a physiological sensation
Some things improve your integrity
And some things disintegrate you
Now, the things that disintegrate you
You often do to impress other people
Or because you're taking a shortcut
Or you're escaping what you know to be your moral obligation
And your moral obligation stems naturally from your aims
And if you don't have an aim
Well, then, you're aimless
So that's not a solution
So along with the aims come the moral obligations
Then when you violate the moral obligations
You'll have a sense of that violation
It's like, well, you have to stop doing that
Or that's something you could do
You don't have to, you don't have to do any of this
But I would say that's where people should start
You start small
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I had a girl come up to me last night
She said, "I started cleaning up my room
And it completely changed my life"
She said, "Your room is an externalization of your mind"
And that's right
That's exactly true
To the degree that you're in your room
The room is you
Now, that isn't how people think
That's okay, it doesn't matter if they think that way
That's how it is
So, straighten up what you can straighten up
And quit saying things that make you feel weak
And then
Then you'll know what to do next
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