Realizing that everyone is abstracting their own reality, none more/less true than your own. How they interperet things is no less right/wrong than yours, since you'll never be in their shoes and be able to observe that. It makes all the things you find abrasive about others less significant, and instills humility upon judgement of others and their actions.
Do onto others as they do unto you, judge lest not ye be judged.
Everything is relative, the razor's edge is balance. Observe and consider your actions with more effort than the actions themselves.
Insanity is far easier to see in others than ourseleves.
Belief is a tool, not a disease. It can be used productively, or abused.
Balance, is the key to happiness. Stray too far into focus on one thing/idea/effort and neglect the infinite possibility life provides, and you will regret the decision.
What seperates insanity from genius is the ability to use that energy both have in common productively. One lacks dicipline and perspective, the other recognizes it as the most important factors to consider in all lifes challenges.
Take time to apprecciate what you have, and never forget theres someone out there who has is much worse than you. Always be open to help those who are less fortunate than you, because if you were walking around in their shoes and vice versa, they would gladly do the same for you.
Don't get caught up on making sense of everything. It only leads to insanity. Life is chaotic.
"let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.โ - Wendell Berry