1/ You will never be changed by something you instantly agree with.
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8/ What is easily appreciated and consumed often lacks the nuance necessary to make it linger in memory and produce an insight.
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9/ You do not need more things you agree with: they make you complacent & dull. They satisfy your surface while distracting you from depth.
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10/ Self-improvement platitudes, while meaning well, end up becoming another crutch to avoid stepping into the real pain of one's being.
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11/One satisfies their ego by reading a few words of a wise man and fancies oneself wise also. This is the trap of self-help, the addiction.
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12/ Better to seek that which you find disagreeable and take time to think to yourself why is it that it is disagreeable to you.
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13/ In that way you will find a backdoor to your beliefs and to the unconscious motivations and assumptions that cause pain in your life.
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14/ The agreeable won't give you a key to that backdoor. Often it will lock it further and perpetuate the conflict of opposites within you.
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15/ Pay more attention to the words and the thoughts that produce discomfort within you: they are opportunities for insight and for growth.
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16/ Stay with what produces conflict within you and don't seek refuge on the surface, through rationalizing or indulging the senses.
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17/ True understanding produces balance, and a balanced individual is a mature individual: one who knows, and therefore is, oneself.
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18/ The perpetual adolescent is one-sided, stubbornly clinging to the familiar (observe how the words relate so perfectly—not a coincidence)
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19/ Remember that balance is order and order produces growth; but balance only comes when conflict is addressed and resolved. Again & again.
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20/ Meaning is nothing more than how you navigate chaos and order, depth and surface. Too much of either and existence becomes meaningless.
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