Sublime

The more value you have, in terms of looks, status, and prestige, the more direct you can go. Direct Game is the most logical extension for guys who can approach girls, say they’re beautiful, and get a lay that night. Average men need to study Game to get the girl they want. Average men don’t have that initial value to be rewarded for a direct open

Love can build relationships that are healthy and toxic. Wealth generates philanthropy and exploitation. Beauty inspires art and objectification. Intelligence eliminates communicable diseases through vaccines to save mass human life and builds atomic bombs to destroy mass human life.

Pythagoras concluded that ratios govern not only music but also all other types of beauty. To the Pythagoreans, ratios and proportions controlled musical beauty, physical beauty, and mathematical beauty.

Certamente, beleza e amor são a mesma coisa. Sem amor não há beleza, e sem beleza não há amor. A beleza está na forma, na fala, na conduta. Se não há amor, a conduta fica vazia. Ela é meramente o produto da sociedade, de determinada cultura, e o que é produzido é mecânico, sem vida. Mas quando a mente percebe sem a menor agitação, então ela é capaz

The Greeks had a word, pleonexia—self-serving—which they said was the worst kind of life. We might say that justice, virtue—being good and not just great—is the antithesis of this.

How attractive you are is based on your lack of neediness. Your non-neediness is based on how vulnerable you’re able to make yourself. And how vulnerable you’re able to make yourself is based on how honest you are to yourself and others.

Seng-wei says, “The Bhagavan tells Subhuti if donors base themselves on false conceptions in their practice of giving and are attached to a subject or object and think that merit is real, this turns out to be false. The Tathagata does not speak of such merit as great, because merit does not exist. But if donors base themselves on the wisdom of the