“Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.”

— 2 Corinthians 9:15 (KJV)

Becoming self-sovereign isn’t for everybody. But if you have it in you, there is nothing more liberating.

If you self-custody #Bitcoin without any third parties, you are sovereign.

You are immune to rug pulls, as you’ve eliminated counter-party risk. Well done. The same cannot be said for those who hold mere Bitcoin IOUs.

“Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself. But that’s the whole fun of it—just what he wanted to do. He doesn’t want to find himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me to find out that we are God in disguise, pretending not to be himself. But when the game has gone on long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self—the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever.”

— Alan Watts, The Book

This made me laugh.

Gustave Doré is one of the greatest.

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#Bitcoin rewards those who have done the work, and humbles those who succumb to greed and/or fear.

When #Bitcoin hits $1M, it won’t matter whether you got in at $90K or $100K.

#Bitcoin is a gift. Embrace it.

There is a story about a great sage, Narada, who came to Vishnu. Vishnu is one of the aspects of the godhead, Brahma. Brahma is usually the word given to the creator aspect, Vishnu to the preserving aspect, and Shiva to the destructive aspect. When Narada came to Vishnu and said, 'What is the secret of your Maya?' Vishnu took him and threw him into a pool.

The moment he fell under the water he was born as a princess in a very great family, and went through all the experiences of childhood as a little girl. She finally married a prince from another kingdom and went to live with him in his kingdom. They lived there in tremendous prosperity, with palaces and peacocks, but suddenly there was a war and their kingdom was attacked and utterly destroyed. The prince himself was killed in battle, and he was cremated. As a dutiful wife, the princess was about to throw herself weeping on to the funeral pyre and burn herself in an act of suttee or self-sacrifice.

But suddenly Narada woke to find himself being pulled out of the pool by his hair by Vishnu, who said, 'For whom were you weeping?'

Merry Christmas Eve!

Fact: One cannot be a Bitcoiner while also pursuing scamcoins.

What being a Bitcoiner feels like https://video.nostr.build/6d06c406fd844b998f7036462811e1345046269a838e5ae675dbd845b8a0747e.mp4

“The fact is that because no one thing or feature of this universe is separable from the whole, the only real You, or Self, is the whole.”

— Alan Watts, The Book

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Follow the Middle Way.

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