1/ A few scattered thoughts on problems and finding your own answers.
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8/ Easy answers make for easy problems—but since there are no easy problems, the only thing an easy answer does is perpetuate a need for it.
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9/ It's easy to be an answer-hoarder; it is difficult to be a problem-solver. The first is driven by fear & ego, the second by love & truth.
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10/ In this way, most self-help is marketed self-deception: "I'll tell you what your problem is and how to fix it".
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11/ When the individual implications of a problem are poorly understood no answer can work. The real problem is always ill-defined problems.
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12/ A personal understanding of the problem is required and that cannot be bought and sold. It is achieved by, and for, the individual.
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13/ At the root of every problem lies the individual. In truth, all problems are existential, interconnected and related to each other.
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14/ There is no other, simpler way of unweaving this complex matrix but through personal investigation, by means of your own consciousness.
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15/ A problem can be seen as the gateway to a labyrinth that invariably extends and leads into the deepest dimensions of yourself.
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16/ Like Theseus you are called to enter the maze, leaving a line of thread behind to retrace your steps as you navigate the corridors.
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17/ The outer corridors of the labyrinth are simple to navigate; these contain the generic, the mundane, the day-to-day kinds of problems.
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18/ The light from the outside is visible and the voices of others can still be clearly heard in these corridors.
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19/ The further you venture into the other corridors however, the less you can hear the voices outside, and the less light enters the maze.
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20/ The deeper corridors are those of the purely individual dimension. Here the problems are absolutely personal, unique to each individual.
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21/ In these corridors you can only proceed on your own—no external light is there to direct you; the answer is as yours as the question is.
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22/ You visit these corridors not only to illuminate them but to understand how they connect and relate to those before and after them.
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23/ With a growing knowledge of the maze you retrace your steps so the next time you enter you can go deeper, take a different direction.
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24/ But if you are not careful and forget to hold the thread of memory and retrace your steps, you can lose your way and never make it out.
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25/ As you gain experience with each visit, the thread itself grows longer; but go farther than it allows for and you will again get lost.
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26/ Navigating the labyrinth and retracing your steps—understanding the problem & implications on the individual scale—is itself the answer.
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27/ The most common form of self-deception is one's propensity to think they have an answer when they haven't even started on the problem.
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28/ Every person's fundamental challenge in life consists not of finding the correct answer, but of correctly identifying the problem.
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29/ It is a never-ending, slow, and arduous process. The reward is you learn from yourself: what to look for, where to look for it, and how.
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