In an effort to facilitate more people (including us) leaning into new sensations that lead to pleasure, we are compiling a list of sensations worth exploring so we can turn it into some kind of epic art project that we can pass out to our friends, strangers, people soliciting merchandise or religion at our door, and more specifically, you (our readers).

I like to think of it like this: if my life were a work of fiction and there were an author writing the story, there must be small parts of my life that act as foreshadowing to the important events in my future.

My main resolution for 2019 is all about pleasure; it rejects the expectations that society, my friends and family, and even I have put on myself. It is the resolution that has been hidden underneath every resolution about weight loss or changing my body that I have ever made:

Real Hedonism is not a sex cult.

Slowly I have come to know that the magic of Harry Potter isn’t in the wands, it’s in a group of people living their lives together. Fighting together. Failing together. Learning together.  

It turned ten minutes of would be pee anxiety into ten minutes of quiet chuckling and a fun conversation.

What we spend our attention on changes who we are and shapes the world around us.

The gift of the founding fathers was not the constitution; it was the spirit of revolution.

If we don’t know how to enjoy ourselves, we certainly won’t know how to create paradise. 

“When I got good at my blindfolded walks, I felt like a wizard.“

Through the lens of hedonism, it's possible to see the value in all belief systems, as they are all simply different ways that humans pursue pleasure.

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”