An archive of consciousness.https://zhengyangyao.com/en-ushttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/everyone-family/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/everyone-family/Everyone in the world is our family — it's only our limited energy that makes us reserve the word for those closest by blood. The more love you have to give, the more people you can reach in a lifetime. So first learn to love yourself, fill yourself with love, then love others as far as you're able; beyond that, do no harm, and love where you can.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/love-humanity/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/love-humanity/To love humanity means loving all of it — even those who hurt me, betrayed me, deceived me. Not for anything they brought into my life, but for who they are, just as they are. Love without conditions is the greatest force in the universe.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/avoiding-pain/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/avoiding-pain/Pain is real and can ruin a person; pleasure is illusion that fades the moment it arrives. Happiness isn't found by chasing — it's found by avoiding what destroys.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/chosen-script/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/chosen-script/The soul doesn't die; the scripts change. We picked this one ourselves before we came down — so however bad it gets, we keep performing. There's no good or bad, only the attitude you bring to a life.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/life-chaos-equality/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/life-chaos-equality/When life grows too calm, I find myself craving cracks. The world is fair after all — happiness has a ceiling, and it sits within reach.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/beyond-reading/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/beyond-reading/In Buffett and Munger's era, books were nearly the only path to knowledge. Today, instead of calling it reading, we should generalize it to learning.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/the-great-game/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/the-great-game/Finally finished my first nonfiction book in 2026. History never changes — because human nature never loses its flaws.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/drawing-the-line/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/drawing-the-line/Severing ties with your former self is the only path to perpetual growth. Reshape your identity, and the past loses its grip on you.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/letting-go/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/letting-go/The harder you chase something, the further it slips away. True possession is non-possession. Let go of attachment, and what you seek will find its way to you.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/cherish-the-present/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/cherish-the-present/Distance creates beauty; not possessing is the truest form of having. Cherish the present and live each day well.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/twenty-one/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/twenty-one/The only way to face life's uncertainty is by cultivating an inner world.Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/independence/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/independence/Independence is a personality forged by necessity. Only when you no longer need to ask the world for anything can you truly give love to it.Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/sensitivity/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/sensitivity/Sensitivity is like a multiplier that amplifies both happiness and pain in equal measure. Its best antidote may simply be becoming a person who is at peace — easygoing, yet never careless.Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://zhengyangyao.com/blog/idealism/https://zhengyangyao.com/blog/idealism/Let go of perfectionism, embrace idealism. The harder life gets, the more we should tend the garden of idealism in our hearts.Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT