hammy mo

“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.” - Lao Tzu

When we feel the weight of our limits, we start reaching toward idols to imitate, goals to chase, places to explore, people to meet. What we’re really chasing is a sense of immortality or infinity, something that lives longer than we ever will. We want to be remembered long after we’ve left a conversation, the company, the world.

You lack spirit, not another fashion identity. You don’t need another aesthetic, you need stronger values.

It's something like an attitude of healthy skepticism I'm suggesting. Investigating whether things are really as hard as they look.

As the Arabian caliph Umar ibn Al-Khattab wrote, “He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.”

“All desire is a desire for

being.

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Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such

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every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become.

He fought falsehoods deeply rooted in culture and identity. His greatest task wasn’t to defeat armies. It was to defeat blindness . The blindness of arrogance. Of inherited belief. Of tribal pride.