A Simpler Life

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse

Excellent small book that reads like a manifesto on simple living from The School of Life and its founder, Alain de Botton. The contents page (below) reads like a guide to removing unnecessary excess and stress from one’s life. A couple of quotes. On purpose:

The crucial step towards leading a simpler life isn’t – as we might initially suppose – to get rid of things. It’s to ask ourselves what our true longings are and what are the ends at which we are aiming. Simplicity isn’t so much a life with few things and commitments in it, as a life with the right, necessary things, attuned to our flourishing. Our lives will feel – and be – simpler when we’ve probed our minds to yield up their most secret and precious insight: the knowledge of what we truly want.

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The Soul of Money

Posted on May 30, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse
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Mona Lisa 2.0

Posted on May 16, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse

Did you know a second Mona Lisa exists, in an art museum in Madrid? I had no idea. This painting was created by one of da Vinci’s students and is more detailed compared to the more minimalist original. It is also more vivid. Amazing.

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What if I don’t have a big dream? Is my “little life” enough?

Posted on May 2, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse
Source: TikTok

I’ve never had a big dream. I admire those who know what they want to achieve in life and have self-awareness and self-love to go for it. I did not have that. Instead, I had to figure out what makes a meaningful, fulfilling life, gradually and over the decades, within the constraints of my life, while figuring out how to pay bills.

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A simple life

Posted on April 18, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse
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Smile. Life is a miracle. Be a flower 🌸

Posted on April 4, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse

Source: “Butterflies over the golden mustard fields” poem by Thich Nhat Hanh.

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Emergency post-psychedelic help (psychedelic ER?)

Posted on March 21, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse

Source: Navigating groundlessness: An interview study on dealing with ontological shock and existential distress following psychedelic experiences

Several friends are considering plant medicine ceremonies which made me think of and dust off a draft post listing resources on integration. Integration in a nutshell is dealing with whatever comes up in the trip and keeps coming up, sometimes for years, post-trip. My integration has taken years, and I am not sure I am yet done.

Above is a very handy list of possible complications and challenges that may arise after a psychedelic trip. Emptiness aside, I personally can relate to “continuous confusion” and “overwhelming preoccupation with making sense.” 😊

Up to 40% of psychedelic experiences end in a bad trip or require long term psychological help. I am not talking about tiny recreational doses where one sees some beautiful patterns and feels a bit high. I believe the statistic applies to serious mind explorers, interested in going the whole way and fully navigating the depths of their minds.

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No-resist-erone 💊

Posted on February 21, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse

Whenever you contract, get tight about something, it’s always a reminder to unclench, relax and expand. These days, as I get to play with words and pill boxes, I present to you the most Buddhist drug name ever 😊 Do. Not. Resist. Take a chill pill of no-resist-erone 😊

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When you have nothing to say, give love and eat cake

Posted on February 7, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse

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Create for the sake of creation

Posted on January 24, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse

Real success is the aliveness you feel when you create something new. It has nothing to do with external results. Success occurs when you inhabit a space in the universe where you connect with flow. Once you learn how to find this success universe, you will feel that the future is full of endless possibility… A life well lived is one where you find your way into the success universe and stay there.

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Fail at your career to discover your true self

Posted on January 10, 2026 by nomadoftheuniverse

The successful careerist may find that the darkness embroiled at his centre is the part that wishes to fail in order to open other neglected parts of his life; when he becomes his failure he no longer has to carry that career success as a burden. He can explore avenues that he previously might have labelled under that dreaded organizational swamp-dwelling monster, failure.

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Happy New Year! 🎇

Posted on December 31, 2025 by nomadoftheuniverse

Today happens to also be my birthday so I wanted to mark the year end here. I leave you with this spiritual meme from the channel I follow on IG.

Have fun 🎪, be lazy/do nothing, eat and be merry 🎂, want what you have to have what you want ✨, and if you are unsure what to do, do you, boo 😂

Happy New Year! 🥳 🥂

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Art therapy — A Girl With Perimenopause, Vermeer style

Posted on December 28, 2025 by nomadoftheuniverse

A girl with a pearl earring she is not. She is a perimenopausal woman in her mid 40s who gets up at dawn to apply cold estrogel to her thighs and dry it with a hairdryer before she goes to work.

Inspired by Vermeer’s work, this illustration rendered by AI provides a contemporary perspective on the realities of life for women of middle age.

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Pathless Path

Posted on December 14, 2025 by nomadoftheuniverse

Nothing is ever straightforward. Everything is a fucking paradox. Every question has not two but a multitude of answers.

Walking to the job of my dreams feels like being led to the gallows. I am not okay with a building being mismanaged, yet I pay to go to a country where they embrace decay. I felt soul dead in a prestigious job paying three times what I earn now, but I feel alive in this job where I am an essential worker, yet get treated like not.

An elderly patient is yelling at me because his constipation medication is not in stock, indignant with fear or helplessness, lost in aimless rage against nearing mortality, blocked physically and energetically — I can’t blame him because he is my karmic mirror, a reflection of me when I burn with anonymous anger. I used to be a walking emotional contagion. But now the buck stops with me.

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“Rest is resistance. Free yourself from grind culture and reclaim your life”

Posted on November 30, 2025 by nomadoftheuniverse

You are enough simply by being alive.

Thank you for living.

Thank you for resisting.

Thank you for creating.

Thank you for dreaming.

Thank you for resting.

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