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41 " If my life means so little, then F**k It, I might as well go for it and just have a laugh. "
― John C. Parkin , F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
42 " I am one person among seven billion people on this Earth at the moment. That’s one person among 7,000,000,000 people. That’s a lot of Wembley Stadiums full of people, and even more double-decker buses (apparently, these are the standard British measurements for size). And we live on a planet that is spinning at 67,000 miles per hour through space, around a sun that is the centre of our solar system (and our solar system is spinning around the centre of the Milky Way at 530,000 miles per hour). Just our solar system (which is a tiny speck within the entire universe) is very big indeed. If Earth was a peppercorn and Jupiter was a chestnut (the standard American measurements), you’d have to place them 100 metres apart to get a sense of the real distance between us. And this universe is only one of many. In fact, the chances are that there are many, many more populated Earths – just like ours – in other universes. And that’s just space. Have a look at time, too. If you’re lucky, you may spend 85 years on this Earth. Man has been around for 100,000 years, so you’re going to spend just 0.00085 per cent of man’s history living on this Earth. And man’s stay on Earth has been very short in the context of the age of the Earth (which is 4.5 billion years old): if the Earth had been around for the equivalent of a day (with the Big Bang kicking it all off at midnight), humans didn’t turn up until 11.59.58 p.m. That means we’ve only been around for the last two seconds. A lifetime is gone in a flash. There are relatively few people on this Earth that were here 100 years ago. Just as you’ll be gone (relatively) soon. "
43 " It seems to me that the problem for most of us is that we have placed lots of tags on ourselves (and had them placed on us by others); we have limited ourselves through our beliefs (about ourselves and the world) and shut ourselves down through our perceived obligations… so that we haven’t been open vessels for that life energy. "
― John C. Parkin , F**k It – Do What You Love
44 " When you really know what you want (through relaxing), it’s very difficult for change not to happen quite naturally. "
45 " Whereas the answer to everything possibly lies in this: not looking for more meaning, but looking for less. "
46 " When we say F**k It to anything, the meanings start to crumble as the things that matter lose their meaning, and then suddenly the world opens up again. Without the discrimination and discernment we learned as we were growing up, every single thing has the potential to be appreciated. Everything is beautiful. If "
