Epigrams

They just tend to pop up in my head. What can I do?


  • The road to hell is paved with expectations.
  • The road to hell is paved with good vibrations.
  • People cite tradition by saying “It is said that...” There are too many "it is said that"s. In the end, only direct experience matters...
  • All manifestations are imperfect. The rules do not require perfection. The shortcomings are there to let you know you should let go. Let go. Just go…
  • Human beings are the Universe's temper tantrum!
  • Evil is the violent rejection of the bliss of the Universal Consciousness…
  • When you tell someone you love them, be certain that you are saying that you love them and not just the feeling the invoke in you.
  • Understanding is the birthing process (and vice versa)…
  • Restlessness always. Shhh. Just listen.
  • The bloatedness is my ego. Cure ego. Relieve bloatedness.
  • We are still relevant.
  • Before you buy, ask whether you need it and if so why?
  • Recombine all the time. Don’t revisit any minute. Every moment’s a revision.
  • Apathy is a way to dispel agony.
  • The concept of a meme is a meme.
  • Dont be meek. Hang out with geeks and freaks.
  • Our system works, but our culture doesn’t.
  • Good things are just around the corner, so just make it to the damn corner!
  • We need police to police the police.
  • In the West, the answer is all that matters. In the East, it’s the question that matters.
  • What is real is seldom seen, never felt.
  • If you are pissing people off, you are doing something right. Keep it up.
  • I think, therefore I am (Descartes). I have compassion, therefore others are (gf).
  • I am poor; therefore, leave me a loan.
  • I take full responsibility for your shittiness.
  • Hell is other people. So is heaven. Without them, we are are as trees.
  • I am cold; sweaters unfold.
  • You are perfect in the moment you are in.
  • I strive for peace within myself; I have not attained it; therefore, please do not disturb or disrupt my attempt.
  • Don’t be “evil," unless it’s not too bad, is really fun, and you won’t get caught.
  • Jail is the worst place there is except for the street.
  • What do I write about? Give up. Follow nothing.
  • Don’t be evil. Be Eval Knievel.
  • Suffereing is the child of impossible desires.
  • Freedom is letting go of shit, not hording it,
  • I may wish now that I would cease to be, but that’s all.
  • Record everything, but not so much that you don’t experience the present.
  • Too many assasinations, so Diocletian split... (By which I refer to the Roman Emporer Diocletian who split up the Roman Empire administratively between West and East, then “split” (voluntarily left and retired—a first for ancient Rome) to a palace he had built in what is now Split, Croatia, because he wanted to live to see old age and not die of assassination.)


— Gabriel Fenteany


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