In 2017, the world pizza market was US$128 billion, and in the US it was $44 billion spread over 76,000 pizzerias -- wikipedia.
"your only responsibility is to love"
Let God handle the outcome.
Ezekiel bread
Priority request: Ezekiel 4:9 bread is advertised as a healthier organic alternative to modern bread. It states that it is made with an older technique and uses a sprouted grain. It is found in the freezer section of the grocery store due to its lack of preservatives.
never talking about or mentally dwelling in the past
Priority request: I found this in a Barry Long book as a way to dissolve what he calls the false personality. The false self feeds off and milks past experiences, positive or negative, to sustain itself and parasitically saps our energy in the process.
sat-chit-ananda (spiritual state)
Priority request. "In the stillness, all occurs of its own accord, autonomously and spontaneously. Sound has no effect on the silence that persists even within the sound. The state is traditionally and historically referred to as sat-chit-ananda (silent bliss)" -- TLC, Hawkins.
Facebook
As of December 2022, Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States -- wikipedia.
"God helps those who help themselves"
Not from The Bible nor from Benjamin Franklin. Regardless of its source, It is evidently a rationalization of the ego...
The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
The book's message is that enlightenment comes from being intensely present in the now, which involves leaving behind the analytical mind and its false created self, the ego -- Brave AI.
irony
1: The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. 2: An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning. 3: Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs -- wordnik.com.
paradox
"a situation or statement that seems impossible or is difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics" --dictionary.cambridge.com.
Book of Genesis (Lamsa Bible)
Request. The first book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. Listed at 660 in TvF.
narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
"NPD manifests in two primary forms: grandiose ("thick-skinned") individuals who display arrogance, social dominance, and exploitativeness, and vulnerable ("thin-skinned") individuals who experience shame, inferiority, hypersensitivity to criticism, and extreme rage when rejected" -- Brave AI.
statement: the intellect can never know Love
The intellect is fundamentally incapable of discerning the true nature of Love over 500.
"We're all just walking each other home"
Quote by Ram Dass.
"sorry not sorry"
A sarcastic idiom used to acknowledge that someone might disapprove of an action or statement, but the speaker does not feel bad or regretful about it. It functions as an insincere or ironic apology -- Brave AI.