Quotes by Oli Anderson

Life is for those that deserve it. Those kings amongst men who can climb out of barrels and will dare to break through glass walls and to transcend all of this whatever it is, these eyes to the ground, this pretence, acting only as is expected and never as is intended. We have been told what is acceptable in what situation and so we take heed. This is not living. In the real world, in nature, there is no need to pretend. There is no place for it.

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.

Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confusebusy for success. The truth of the matter is that if youre constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what youre really telling them is that you cant cope with whats on your plate. Youre ‘failing’.

When one dream dies we replace it with another.

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

Having problems doesnt make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.

Remember: knowing originates on the inside, knowledge on the outside. Certain facts and concepts may change, come into being, disappear, or be replaced, but what it is to be a human being will never really be all that different. Every person to ever live, now and the whole of history, has had a rich and elaborate world of inner experience, but it has mainly been flesh upon the same skeleton. We are allborn, come to terms with the world, and then come to terms with coming to terms with the world, as we go through the stages of puberty, old age, death andmaking sense of it all in between. We all live the same process in different ways. Some live it longer than others and some cover more ground. But thats it.

Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace.

Dont cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can’t be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.

“Life is too short for unreality and you don’t owe anybody anything - especially your time, energy, and attention.”

“Life is short and the opposite of life is bullshit.”

“Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.”

“When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).”