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Death scares us. And because it scares us, we avoid thinking about it, talking about it, sometimes even acknowledging it, even when it’s happening to someone close to us. Yet, in a bizarre, backwards way, death is the light by which the shadow of all of life’s meaning is measured. Without death, everything would feel inconsequential, all experience
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The Self-Improvement Trap (and how to avoid it)
youtube.comAvoiding doing things that essentially just help you dance around the thing that you actually want to do
male rage // EP 68
youtube.com“male rage” not as a form of visual violence, but as a form of micro aggressions that are harder to pick up on but easily passed down generations
- YouTube
youtube.comEmpathic statements, questions, finding common ground, knowing everyone else is in the same boat.
A reason not to worry about wasting life
youtube.comDoing work within ourselves rather than doing it externally is instant, effortless, and totally under my control. “Whats the meaning of my life“ - we try to solve this problem in the outside world. With that we are doomed to fail. The outside world may not cooperate. “To avoid wasting life” again is something we try to solve outside. Those who are remembered across time, for example Socrates, stood for what they thought to be them and solved these problems within themselves. Socrates himself took the poison because he believed in law and order, even though it meant his death, it gave his life meaning because that standing by his beliefs is what gave himself meaning.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert • Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)
Bukowski once wrote, “We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by life’s trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.”
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
history of the entire world, i guess
youtube.com- YouTube
youtube.com“No man is an island“. If you aren’t interesting you just aren’t actively listening to others. Listening is a master tool