Ignore the urge to show personal success and keep it as the one thing that is yours.

Until your success gets tired of being ignored and speaks for itself.

Then you stop ignoring it and just stay silent in its presence, soaking it in.

– Osasu Oviawe

The greatest trick of life is the concealment of death.

The greatest trick of death is its sneaking up on life.

– Osasu Oviawe

The body remains fixed in the present but carries a mind that is in a constant flow from retrospection to introspection to circumspection to prospection.

The more turbulent any flow, the faster the rate of wear on what is fixed in it.

Even a gentle flow wears what is fixed; it only takes much longer.

Stillness is the only state that allows the fixed to unravel in its true nature.

A still mind is your greatest gift to your body.

Practice stillness until it becomes your practice.

– Osasu Oviawe

The approach to solving any computer issue is to first check the hardware before checking the software.

The same approach works with humans.

When an issue is reported, check the physical conditions before exploring the psychological.

– Osasu Oviawe

Love is a willing sacrifice of self: your ego, your interests, your becoming, your being, with the reckless abandon of a child that does not know deep waters take your breath away figuratively and then literally.

But you love, even without any promise of tomorrow, because however fleeting it might be, like a shooting star, it unmasked all your wishes and carries them to a place where they do not have to be real to come true.

To love and be loved is man’s greatest beauty and surest pitfall.

– Osasu Oviawe

There are some important attributes of nicknames you must accept, and if you don’t, it sticks even harder.

You do not pick your nickname.

You do not decide how it is pronounced.

You do not choose who gives it to you.

It is as random as a butterfly.

Every nickname is a story, with you as its subject.

You will serve it.

– Osasu Oviawe

To improve your decision-making, constrain your choices.

To improve your choices, expand your environment.

– Osasu Oviawe

You know.

You doubt because you don’t want to believe what you know.

But you know.

Time does not reveal what you don’t know, it calls out your bullshit masquerading as doubt.

You know.

You doubt because doubt is the most sophisticated form of procrastination.

But you know.

Reality does not stoop to meet doubt, it stomps upon it.

You know.

Act on what you know.

– Osasu Oviawe

Sit with every emotion.

Sit in silence with it.

Allow it to kick and scream.

Allow it to turn the place upside down.

All emotions ultimately serve you.

The greatest kings sit in silence and act in same.

– Osasu Oviawe

Nothing satisfies the heart like love.

Nothing.

Every other thing turns desire into suffering.

Everything but love.

Life is perfectly designed to flourish within love.

Find it.

– Osasu Oviawe