There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Interpretation
Focusing on your own life can be more stimulating than engaging in the affairs of others.
This quote suggests that by concentrating on one's own circumstances and decisions, a person can provoke thought and reflection in themselves and others. It implies that the act of minding one's own business often leads to greater insights and can challenge societal norms, encouraging others to reconsider their actions and judgments.
In practice
In a discussion about personal boundaries and self-care.
God save the Queen and a fascist regime β¦ a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
Language is a virus from outer space.
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and donβt know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
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