Flavor

Here's the kind of word play insight that tastes as good as homemade ice cream to me when I arrive at it: Over editing of flavor, when performed on a truly meaningful thought, can produce something quasi-independently important in itself, like: "Waste, want."

Context Dropping

The reason the modern world of thinking has been perverted by context dropping, or as logicians call it, the "fallacy of suppressed evidence," is that few people realize that all phenomena everywhere are interconnected. For example, if you search enough, you can discover meaningful relationships between, say, the color of a particular lipstick and the price of tamales in Tijuana.

Although connections between given phenomena may not be relevant to a particular issue, surprisingly often they are - we just won't allow ourselves to see ALL the influences at play in most cases. Thus context dropping is really a symptom of closed mindedness.

Fear

Fear.

What comes to mind when you read that word? Like love, the place of fear in our lives speaks Gettysburg Addresses - what fear means to us in this moment can reveal the roots of our values, needs, and more.

And somehow integrating what we fear with what we love can win inner civil wars.

Love

Love.

When you read that word, what comes to mind? A romantic relationship? A general attitude toward humanity? God? Family love? Friendship? Your feelings about yourself? Something else?

What "Love" means to us at a particular moment says a lot about us: our values and priorities at that moment; our lacks, fulfillments, desires & goals; our attitude(s) in general.

What better yardstick of our lives and our success than the place of Love in the picture?

(You might be able to measure many of the same things with hate, but why go destructive when it's so much more fun to create?)