2/ First, don't listen to people who project ideals, or deal in ideals in any way shape or form. They are the most deluded of them all, because their whole identity is based around a fiction, which, however exalted, virtuous, or noble it might appear, is a fake.
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13/ The key is not to mistake ideals for values, because those who profit from selling you ideals are relying on this deception taking place: Chasing an ideal is easy, understanding and following your values is hard. Ideals give you an end; values give you the means.
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14/ The best thing you can do for your own psychological well-being and a meaningful life is to forget all the ideals that have been pushed on you by culture and focus on refining your own values; ultimately this is the only way to help yourself, and everybody else, too.
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15/ PS The only way to fulfill an ideal is to become an imitation, and those who imitate cannot create. The emptiness that this creates in a human being is unfathomable, which perpetuates the vicious cycle of trying to fulfill an ideal in the hopes that it can fill it.
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1/ The problem is not ideals or even shared ideals (to the extent that these can exist), as such, but a lack of sincerity. An ideal one is 'sold', one does not believe. A true ideal takes possession of one's entire soul.
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2/ Till one reaches this point, if this be truly sought, imitation may be excusable, even commendable.
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Yes! Yet the clothing matters less than it might appear on the surface. The traditional forms of an ideal could be of great aid in discovering the true (ideal). The image of Christ or the Buddha may in fact provide the best soil possible for the true ideal to break forth.
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