An Eschatological Laundry List

A Partial Register of the 927 Eternal Truths
So I have found the most delightfully despairingly uplifting book I have ever thought I "could" stumble upon. This author took the most painful truths about life and spoke them plainly. They are the most destructive messages you will ever read, but until you embrace them, make them one within you, you are merely fooling yourself. Take what you want, leave the rest.

1. This is it!
All of it. Nothing else is there for us but what have. This is amazing. She starts out the list with the most basic of all truths. It really hits me at my core.

2. There are no hidden meanings.
Everything is plain, everything is obvious, everything is bare, open, raw. You get what you see... now enjoy.

3. You can't get there from here, and besides there is no place else to go.
There is here, here is there. There is nothing more than a new perspective on here anyway, and why do you crave that instead of this? LOL! I love the truth, I desire to live the truth, to know it, to make it mine and me.

4. We are all already dying, and we will be dead for a long time.
Not funny, but hilarious. You were born to death, death is fast approaching, your end is coming, and when it hits, it is permanent. It is all. So REVEL IN THE MOMENT! BECAUSE THIS IS ALL THERE IS!!! THIS! IS!

5. Nothing lasts.
Nothing. So enjoy what you have, when you have it, for the reason you have it. If you don't, you merely lose out.

6. There is no way of getting all you want.
How liberating. The level of relief I have when I embrace this truth is amazing.

7. You can't have anything until you let go of it.
And even then you don't have it, you share it.

8. You only get to keep what you give away.
And even then you don't keep it, you share it.

9. There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things.
Each moment is not created by a single 'thing' but rather by a countless confusion of events, people, thoughts, ideas, things... the 'why' is the distancer.

10. The world is not necessarily just, being good often does not pay off and there is no compensation for misfortune.
Nuff said. Deal with it or spend your life in frustration.

11. You have a responsibility to do your best nonetheless.
How true, yet so many people avoid this truth like it was a plague or a virus.

12. It is a random universe to which we bring meaning.
RAmen.

13. You don't really control anything.
No matter how much you think you do.

14. You can't make anyone love you.
You can only make or allow yourself to love someone else.

15. No one is any stronger or weaker than anyone else.
We are who we are, no more and no less. Each of us has gifts, talents, skills, ideas, physicalities, disabilities, thoughts, dreams, beliefs, concepts, and more, than make us who we are. Strength is an illusion.

16. Everyone is, in their own way vulnerable.
Achilles had his heel, what do you have? Know it, know you, and you are more complete.

17. There are no great people.
Everyone is just a person, we all go to the bathroom, we all eat, we all were born, and we all will die.

18. If you have a hero, look again; You have diminished yourself in some way.
Be your own hero.

19. Everyone lies, cheats & pretends.
Everyone. Especially those you respect, especially you, and most especially me.

20. All evil is potential vitality in need of transformation.
wow. I am humbled by this. To lose the concept of a just and ordered universe is enough of a kick in the groin. But to think that evil is nothing more than energy needing to be changed? I heard a friend once say, "Everyone does everything they do because they think it will make them happy." No one sets out to do evil, but to serve themselves.

21. All of you is worth something, if you will only own it.
Own it. Accept it. Recognize it first. But most importantly, own it.

22. Progress is an illusion.
Nothing moves forward, we merely move sideways. We aren't creating anything new, just utilizing tools that were available at the beginning of time in a different way than we have before.

23. Evil can be displaced but never eradicated, as all solutions breed new problems.
Every solution merely creates new problems. Remember that, when you think you just "figured it all out," that all you did was come to a conclusion that will generate new and unexpected problems for you.

24. Yet it is necessary to keep struggling toward solution.
Without working towards solutions, you merely mire yourself (and waste time wallowing) in the problem. Stagnation.

25. Childhood is a nightmare.
For everyone. Noone has parents that did it right. Everyone was damaged from their time as a child, on some level, by some person.

26. But it is very hard to be an on-your-own, take-care-of-yourself-cause-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown up.
Very hard. Very tough. Very vitally important tho.

27. Each of us is ultimately alone.
Forever, no matter the relationships you have. You are forever, and always alone.

28. The most important things, each person must do for themselves.
No one else will, nor can they.

29. Love is not enough, but it sure helps.
It helps alot... a lot, lot.

30. We have only ourselves, and one another. That may not be much, but that's all there is.
All there is.

31. How strange, that so often, it all seems worth it.
More often than I could ever have dreamed.

32. We must live with the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial power and partial knowledge.
And how frustrating is that?! It's enough to make you want to just give up.

33. All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.
You will never know enough to make the perfect decision.

34. Yet we are responsible for everything we do.
Everything we do, everyday we do it, for every reason we choose.

35. No excuses will be accepted.
None should even be offered.

36. You can run, but you can't hide.
And sometimes it's fun to run, and try to hide.

37. It is most important to run out of scapegoats.
Own you and all that you do.

38. We must learn the power of living with our helplessness.
It is our greatest strength, our greatest weakness.

39. The only victory, lies in surrender to oneself.
So let go.

40. All of the significant battles are waged within yourself.
Surrender to you.

41. You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.
LOL! This one hurts me the most. But it's truth is the strongest.

42. What do you know……..for sure……….. anyway?
Nothing? Alot? Everything?

43. Learn to forgive yourself, again and again and again and again.
Because... see Rule #1.

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This is a book. I have set the link for the book at the top of this blog entry. I suggest you buy this book. It's amazing.