It's not an easy thing to live in a truthful manner but the alternative is hell
If you are improving yourself then what you are doing is competing with your lesser self
The union of masculine and feminine produces a kind of perfect wholeness
Things get to terrible places one tiny step at a time
If you face the malevolence and suffering that opens the door to your maximal potential. The optimistic part of that is although the suffering is great and the malevolence is deep, your capacity to transcend it is stronger
You've got three numbers ...
Use past as a school!
Develop your own style!
The human self-consciousness is what separates us from animals
If you are going to be creative it's because you are tormented by a problem. If you are not in a position to be tormented by a problem, you are not going to put in time and effort to take the risk necessary to be creative
We can't have equality of outcome amongst people with lower than 83 IQs
Make plans like an adult and believe in them like a child and the most incredible things will happen. Just try it for 90 days. Just try it
It's extremely useful to represent the phenomenology of your experience as a domain of chaos and order. That works for every single environment for every person
Even if you don't know the history but have a complete understanding of human beings, you would say - well, equality of outcome does not make sense
Differences at the extreme are where the differences really start to manifest themselves. So you can have a small difference at the level of the average but out at the extremes it starts to make massive difference
Deposit your imagination and faith into high, skillful, disciplined activity