there is only one sin and it's refusing to accept feedback from reality
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
In fact, the impression I get from Jesus is that the battle against our own self-righteousness is our biggest battle of all.
Brant Hansen • The Truth about Us: The Very Good News about How Very Bad We Are
truth has no medium
if something only appears true for a certain segment of history, or only appears true for a certain group of people, or only appears true for in certain test cases, it probably isn’t the truth, and you should discard that way of thinking as best as you can
the impact of this ranges from something as small as choosing a different r
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Perhaps this notion will become clearer if I risk this shocking statement: the absurd is sin without God.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
EVIL IS SIMPLY GOOD SPOILED Only because He has laid up real goods for us to desire are we able to go wrong by snatching at them in greedy, misdirected ways. The truth is that evil is not a real thing at all, like God. It is simply good spoiled. That is why I say there can be good without evil, but no evil without good. You know what the biologists
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