First and foremost, listen to yourself.
Then do only the things that you genuinely want to do.
Be absolutely selfish—but make sure what you want comes from deep within *you*. Distinguish between conditioned and intrinsic desires.
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In you speaks the eternal wisdom of the Way of Nature. When you do what you truly intrinsically, selfishly want to do, you do exactly what the world needs of you.
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Bees and beavers don’t do what they do ‘for the greater good’. They do it totally for themselves—and this is why they are irreplaceable in the biosphere.
Humans do everything in an effort to do good, and this is why we are destroying the world.
Be selfish. The world needs it.
