Some wills cannot be ignored (time). Some can be interrupted but not destroyed (river/dam). All wills may be equally important — equal legitimacy, not equal scale.

On the difference between equal scale and equal legitimacy.

The dam increases the differential. It doesn't reduce the will. It concentrates it.

On obstruction as concentration.

Expert perception doesn't escape the maze. It builds a higher-resolution maze. Mastery may be sophisticated captivity, not liberation.

On expertise as captivity at higher resolution.

Certainty is a product of commitment, not a prerequisite for it. Commit first, certainty follows.

On certainty as the output of commitment, not its precondition.

What you fail to perceive is never born, and everything it would have touched never moves.

On what unperception forecloses, not just what it hides.

Can friction be self-generated, or does it always require an external source?

People think in the shape of their injuries. The injury isn't the obstacle to the thinking. It's the architecture of the thinking.

On injury as the architecture of thinking, not its obstacle.