Adventure
Evolving Lands
Jess Cummins
Adventure: Evolving Lands is a notebook written on the move.
Adventure is Book 6 of The Pocket Series.
Adventure is available for free at NoLiesPlease.com.
This book is dedicated to the public domain.
(author
"Jess Cummins"
@jesscxc)
(pronouns she/friend)
(link NoLiesPlease.com)
(book_title Adventure)
(book_subtitle Evolving Lands)
(pocket_series_book_number 6)
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(entry_count 13)
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(misc
"Poem Moves the Pen: Haiku of a Nondual Nature"
"Natural Will: Freer Than Free Will"
"Longgame Hyperdimensional Spacing: Expand Mind and Weave Time"
"Ungov: Transcending Will")
(the_deeper_series
"Book 0: Uncompress: Eternal Appreciation of How"
"Book 1: Fortunate: How to Be"
"Book 2: Attuned: Be What You Imagine"
"Book 3: Capacity: Imagine Being Limitless"
"Book 4: Helper: Limitless Mind"
"Book 5: Intense: Mind Unleashed"
"Book 6: Open: Unleashed Honesty"
"Book 7: Universe: Honesty is Eternal"
"Book 8: Various: Is to Be")
(the_pocket_series
"Book 0: Obverse: Abstract Fast"
"Book 1: Limer: Fast Color"
"Book 2: Dawn: Color of Day"
"Book 3: Knight: Day Beyond"
"Book 4: Fever: Beyond Dreams"
"Book 5: Life: Dreams Evolving"
"Book 6: Adventure: Evolving Lands"
"Book 7: Battle: Lands Say"
"Book 8: Entertainment: Say Ahead"
"Book 9: Explore: Ahead Opportunity"
"Book 10: Moment: Opportunity Simulation"
"Book 11: Imagine: Simulation Twist"
"Book 12: Believe: Twist Self"
"Book 13: Accept: Self Pattern"
"Book 14: Create: Pattern Reflection"
"Book 15: Sift: Reflection Match"
"Book 16: Probability: Match Experience"
"Book 17: Waves: Experience Current"
"Book 18: Kernel: Current Functions"
"Book 19: Grubby: Functions Dig"
"Book 20: Game: Dig Above"
"Book 21: Fruit: Above Messages"
"Book 22: Endeavor: Messages Spread"
"Book 23: Mystery: Spread Expressions"
"Book 24: Detain: Expressions Bind"
"Book 25: Philosophy: Bind Broken"
"Book 26: Demands: Broken Discovery"
"Book 27: Subliminal: Discovery Inside"
"Book 28: Extinction: Inside Refresh"
"Book 29: Control: Refresh Axioms"
"Book 30: Ideas: Axioms Mistake"
"Book 31: Gallium: Mistake Fuzz"
"Book 32: Germanium: Fuzz Friendship"
"Book 33: Arsenic: Friendship Reaction"
"Book 34: Selenium: Reaction Depth"
"Book 35: Bromine: Depth Utility"
"Book 36: Krypton: Utility Model"
"Book 37: Rubidium: Model Augmenter"))
To allowing for possibility.
Keep the adventure alive.
Grime shows us our humanness.
Double-checking is almost always worthwhile.
"It's amazing how long things last when they're in a case."
Don't do things you know you shouldn't do.
Sometimes keeping quiet when you make a mistake is best.
Do what you are afraid of; that's how you grow.
Understand who you are.
Understand your systems to change them.
Focus on having good logistics.
"Get off the bus, go walking, and see if you can find it."
Think it all the way through.
"Show that this is not complicated. We like to make it complicated and make it cost a lot of money, but it doesn't have to."
It's all in your head.
Be swift.
Language is both barrier and bridge.
We advance through technology.
You can stop them from getting in or stop them from getting out.
If you treat a low-status job as a step for a bigger aim then you approach it in a different way.
Make friends and you'll always have success.
"You're listening: that's very important."
Step back and let yourself do it.
Fear keeps you alone.
When do you give up?
All the little pieces count.
Pay attention to what you're doing.
Sometimes rest is the right answer.
Different people have different standards.
"Something is better than nothing. Don't be like the person who won't do anything unless it can be done 'right'. If you have two beans, plant two beans, because you're going to need food later on in the week."
Gimmicks don't work. Be sincere, and care about where the other person is, not just your interests. Get inside their head.
Gossip releases emotion but cultivates bad feelings.
"The bad people, over time, will disappear."
"Longevity is what counts with people."
"You can wait the bad people out, they will all disappear and you'll be the only person left."
The picture is bigger than you can imagine.
Gather the details.
Sometimes a digression is not productive.
"You have to pay attention to people when they need you."
"There are always two sides to the coin."
Third-party diagnosing is foolish.
Every place is a place to learn.
Cultivate skill.
You become used to things.
Sometimes it's nice to not see.
There's a wrong way to take everything.
If you don't make time, time won't make you.
Do it right the first time and you don't have to worry.
Flying things have additional degrees of freedom and so can go further and faster.
You amplify and reduce different things with your presence.
Don't let the future impinge on the Now because now is all there is.
It can be hard to fall asleep while anticipating something.
You adapt subtly.
Failure is okay.
Sometimes the fight is worse than the reason.
Mystery has a Mystery above it.
Don't blame people for being themselves.
People change when they have to.
Change something if you aren't enjoying every step. Frame life differently.
Try. And try again.
To violate your order is impossible.
Joy makes you go farther and push harder and so perpetuates itself.
Sometimes sleeping more makes you more tired.
Favor content over presentation, because presentation is easier to change.
There are many interacting factors.
Can you imagine?
Hard work is not always complicated.
You can't hurry learning.
Knowledge is useless if it's not put to use.
Don't run from who you are. Enjoy being yourself.
There is always more than one way to explain an anecdote and the simplest often has holes.
The same thing can have different names and so be interpreted differently.
Slow down consciously to slow down unconsciously.
Nothing is important if you don't want it to be.
Life is good.
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What is the meaning of your life?
What meaning can you deduce from your actions?
Is it a mere aim of trying to sustain yourself, your interests in the world?
Ultimately that may be a pointless endeavor.
Why try to push yourself onto a place that will not bear all that you have to offer?
How can you find where a good place is?
Every time you proclaim that you are being genuine, in some small way you find you are not.
How will you discover yourself and the beauty in you if you are not weeding out the parts that are not genuine?
Sometimes it's easy, but usually it's not. Usually it's painful to end the incompatibilities inside your being.
Each tiny advance can feel like a skirmish, with dead and wounded that must be carried off the field.
After the skirmish is over, there is more peace than before.
You break open the bottle and fix the problem in a slow but sure way.
It doesn't yield instant results.
It can seem to barely add anything, but over time each compounds, over and over.
The seed is planted, cared for, reaped.
The many seeds come from the one, and then many can be planted, and over time a new farm can be made.
All those steps to care for the seed can seem difficult in the aggregate, difficult when in the trenches day after day.
In the aggregate it can seem so complex, but no particular step is truly that difficult to comprehend.
When the rigors of daily life bear down the way out becomes hard to see.
If you just do the work the pain is less, because by not doing it you suffer worry and constant misery, rather than only while the actual work is being done.
It can hurt worse to avoid work than to do it.
Learn and devise techniques to craft who you are.
Stay in a genuine frame of mind and keep doing what is important rather than urgent.
This is a life-long process of discovery.
There is no simple answer to a complex question, and the human mind is one of the most complex creations on Earth.
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If you've done it before, you know you can do it.
A tree will die without leaves.
You are dreaming.
You _can_ do nothing. Failure is an option.
Let go of your fear. It's not that serious.
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Why not believe it's all a dream?
Perhaps on some level it already is, because it can be so hard to remind yourself that it's not.
Maybe you will approach life in a more fun manner if you see it as a dream in the first place.
Things can become overbearing if you take them too seriously. What's the point of that?
Peace is closing your eyes, taking a deep breath, and saying to yourself: This too shall pass.
Realize that when you get upset and worried, there's really no point.
If nature is happy living a bare existence, why get wrapped up in delusions of grandeur?
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Take a deep breath. It's not that big of a deal.
You learn when you teach.
Don't zoom too far into a question and become stuck on an unhelpful answer.
Start small, with the basics.
Creating is hard. If you're not following a recipe, have low expectations.
Don't wait unless that's the right thing to do. Get started, now.
Like who you are.
It's hard to do something rather than nothing, but it pays off.
Don't be embarrassed, be proud.
There are always many factors. Test.
Don't saturate yourself with busywork.
Not everything is about you. Have patience.
Any time there is a power structure it will be manipulated.
"Be in the asking business."
"Don't hesitate to ask questions."
"It's a word now!"
Little things count.
Studying mathematics is high impact, both for the skill and the mental exercise.
You can definitely do it.
Study yourself.
We are all trying to figure it out.
Empty your cached-self.
Learn to walk with your eyes closed.
It doesn't have to take long to adapt.
Try to be your self.
Sometimes no glasses is better than foggy glasses.
You learn what you like by trying things.
Move yourself to where you need to be.
It can always be more detailed.
You can do more than one thing at once and more than one thing over time.
No action chains you like the belief that you have to act as you did in the past.
Everyone knows things others don't.
Being awesome is believing everyone is awesome.
Healing requires time.
It's not hard to act; it's hard to keep acting.
The delusion is not recognizing the delusion.
Humans have small footprints, but their feet carry their brains.
Try enough failures and you'll stumble onto success.
Things are understandable if you invest the time to understand them.
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Reality could be a game, an illusion placed in the mind.
Thought can be an output of a brain that plays by the laws of the universe.
Inside the mind, thoughts definitely have power.
A person can change their subjective experience through thought, and that can change their actions, as well as the physical structure of their mind.
You can change your mental perspective, the perspective that looks out at the world and tells you what you can do, what is possible.
You can change how you perceive the world.
Complexity through much simplicity is fascinating.
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Simplicity is good because people do things differently.
Small steps build great ships.
You grow with bite-sized pieces.
Even a dull ache has an acute location.
Keep adapting. Keep humble.
Simple things are easier to clean.
Don't force yourself.
Above all, make it sustainable.
Focus first on the core.
How much time are you willing to invest?
Pause, and think.
Remember the good things you have.
You become your surroundings.
Stick with people who mutually encourage each other.
A little company shouldn't try to compete with big companies the way that big companies compete with each other. Adapt.
You are born with a personality.
Slow down if you get hot.
Even the hard things can be done.
Overcorrecting can be a problem.
Don't overdo it or you might become sick of it.
Questions can intermingle.
Scan the edges. Make sure you're not missing anything.
You may have to live with the scars of your mistakes, but they can be reminders not to make them again.
Keep the handles clean.
Different places hold different interests for different people.
Stop moving and be.
You can get back in the swing of things.
You're rich when you're easy to please.
Sometimes pushing harder doesn't work.
When it's easy to start and stop, it can be easier to procrastinate. Consider momentum.
Some things improve without conscious involvement.
Be the kind of person you want to be friends with.
If it's not working, try something new.
Keep the most important thing in mind.
Treat yourself like you want to be treated.
You literally don't know what you're missing.
Don't blame the other person's response. You might need to change your methods.
What's important now?
Simple systems work.
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.meta this is a model
What should you keep?
What should you focus on?
What is important in life?
How can you help the body?
How can you be in line with your needs?
Understand food, for garbage-in is garbage-out.
Eat right, for your energy influences all of your actions.
If you don't know what's healthy to eat, find out.
Keep pushing, and you'll find more opportunity.
Little things can make a big difference. They can compound and create something truly new.
You have great genius and insight to share.
It's okay to repeat yourself if it's a helpful idea, or contradict the past if there's something better.
If it's right to move in a certain direction, don't worry if it contradicts what you said in the past.
Nothing bad lasts forever, but the good tends to.
Let history sort out your ideas; don't stifle them before they reach the page.
Fear of contradiction harms creativity.
Don't let a filter prevent beauty from coming out.
Express, and develop your skill of editing.
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At some point, cut your losses.
Do you remember how you fell asleep?
You will adapt.
Count your blessings. Appreciate them.
Sometimes you have to learn how to use a better tool.
Do too much and you can injure yourself.
More good will come. Rushing can be worse than waiting.
Empathy is helpful.
Keep silent and let derision pass.
If you were to die today, could you be happy?
Things can be different.
Don't follow people going the wrong direction.
Sleep can't be rushed.
Be still to rest.
Close your eyes and imagine the beginning of time.
Surround yourself with things that put you in a good mood.
You're richer for looking at it from another point of view.
Simple things can make you happy.
Life is easier when you anticipate.
If not now, then when?
Simple things last.
Identify how the mechanism works.
What do you do with the math you know?
Step by step, work by work, you're making yourself better and better.
You can't capture everything.
Don't be too busy trying to make a life that you don't have time to live.
What growth is the maintenance allowing you to achieve?
There is no time limit on life.
"You can make your voice sound different!"
Check your assumptions.
You can always be more content.
You can't beat up sickness.
If there's nothing to hide there's no reason to search.
In order for there to be laws of the universe for a conscious being to bend or break, there would have to be laws authorizing it and laws that make the distinction between conscious and not.
"Love everything."
You don't have to like your relatives.
Don't try to achieve; just be.
Suspend disbelief.
Don't become overtired.
Fear is when there isn't understanding.
Math teaches that you can learn complex things.
Knowledge that you can grow is vital.
You can learn from anyone.
Sometimes change is unconscious and not realized.
Don't lose track of important details.
There are no limits when you're determined.
Constraints can breed creativity.
Having too many things to do can prevent you from doing any.
There is so much you can do, but very little you must.
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Let your suffering pass.
Don't make it more complicated than it is.
The point of success is joy, and that comes from true, unconcerned, genuine play.
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Life is like riding a bicycle through hills.
You can't keep going the same speed, and you'll have to change gears.
The faster you're going, the easier going up a hill is, but that also makes you get to the next hill sooner.
Going down the hill is great, but you don't want to go too fast or you'll fall.
Pedaling is easier when you have more leverage.
If you push yourself too hard, you might feel sick.
While you can bike to get somewhere, one of the best reasons is to enjoy the ride.
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Such is life.
Sometimes it's better to wait.
Explore all dimensions.
Stop caring so much. Just experience life.
Question yourself.
"I haven't found anyone who gets nicer or smarter as they get tired."
Hook in novel senses to your brain.
"Who are you?"
Doctors are people too.
Experiences are what make you happy.
Begininings can be fragile because there are so many possible directions.
Go out and check.
Gossip does not promote hope; it tears it down.
Provide value.
Design something better.
Why are you afraid?
Writing changes things.
Every person is different.
You can learn from the mundane.
Understand what the question is.
Don't lose sight of what's important.
As you grow your interpretations change.