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If you never have to face darkness you never truly grow even if you intellectually know the 'right' behaviors. It's the real wolf in the darkness you have to face. Not some video game.

Money corrupts because it's driven by a fear of fear. Money can be burned to produce light that can drive away existential darkness. When you fear to lose money you are fearful of losing the light rather than facing the darkness.

Fear of facing the darkness empowers you to grow. Fear of losing the light only provides anxiety and guilt and shame because you're distracting yourself with fixing the light to procrastinate against facing the darkness.

For men especially, to fixate on keeping on the light rather than venturing into the darkness feels shameful and cowardly.

Men grow wise as they grow old because they learn more and more how little money can buy. They start to see the light of 10,000 lumen LED array can be weaker than the light of a simple candle.

What is your life's purpose? It is to hold onto that candle, hot wax dripping into your hands, slowly burning down... It is to hold with faith and conviction, and then to tell a Story.

You life's purpose is to be. When ego realizes it is not Life itself it realizes its purpose to to tell life's story. You are telling your story. When 'you' realize you aren't 'you', you realize that you are just the story teller.

To realize you are the storyteller is a high pressure situation. You have to continue telling the story no matter what. Otherwise people start jumping overboard.