Mr Bashful Podcast

'Will it bring pleasure, or happiness?'
The Dalai Lama

Hunter-gatherer's "proverb":  "the best way to store food is in another man's stomach."

‘ . . . the automatic cultural man – a man as confined by culture, a slave to it, who imagines he has an identity if he pays his insurance premium, that he has a control of his life if he guns his sp…

‘When we try to get people to like us they like us more than we do.’
Proverb.

‘. . . it is important to totally give yourself permission to feel. And then feel it. Strange things happen when we feel our feelings. They can morph into another feeling and often we have a feeling …

‘Peace is not only in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. Peace is in the midst of things as they are, when there is calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.’
(Autho…

How will living in a tent indefinitely make you financially secure?

'Don't aim to have an easy life, aim to be a strong person.'
John F. Kennedy.

What does a spider have in common with a recluse?

"My mother taught me how to judge EVERYONE. I'm 31 and I haven't spent one day on this planet not feeling like everyone is judging me."
Anonymous

'We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.'
Orson Welles.

Is it true that we really have only one true job: to build ourselves a person?

A king once asked his artists to each paint him a picture of peace. One painting shocked him.
  And then I changed the story.