It's been commented recently that my approach to personal development is unusual in this corner of Twitter and I've been reflecting on this and I think it boils down to two controversial principles:
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(Nearly) impossible to achieve ideals that require extreme effort seems to me the opposite of 'cope'
Yeah, but the idea that those are what you need to do in order to solve your problems is cope, because it's an excuse not to solve your problems.
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I imagine you'd agree that "spiritual progress" involves a reevaluation of what constitutes a problem, a focusing and rechanneling of energy. People spend a lot of time creating and solving problems for themselves with no net positive impact on their well-being/happiness
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