There is no escaping pain in this life. Or at least I have never met someone who hasn’t felt the pain of being alive and being human. It’s a part of this incarnation we took. So instead of trying to not feel it or numb it, we can transmute it. Turning something that hurts into something that brings forth light.
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Nature is the first Scripture and the Bible is the second. If we can’t be in right relation with the first, we will never be in right relation with the second.
It will probably be harder to start working than to keep working. You'll often have to trick yourself to get over that initial threshold. Don't worry about this; it's the nature of work, not a flaw in your character. Work has a sort of activation energy, both per day and per project. And since this threshold is fake in the sense that it's higher... See more
what an insane dynamic to keep being true:
> I spend a lifetime hiding myself, obfuscating my thoughts, trying to pander to what I think people want from me
> It pretty much always blows up in my face, bringing about the exact outcomes I tried to avoid, while also making me feel
We just lack the mental capacity, the frameworks, the language, the ease of articulation, and the consistency of evidence to make it philosophically coherent and scientifically grounded.
But we will get there.
Disregard culture punishing you for taking this seriously. It's just a social fad that comes from the collective... See more