The cycle you are fighting to break is fighting back. It has survived in the bloodline for very long and will not go without a fight. This is the toughest assignment for the chosen ones within families.
The cycle will use the family members you are trying to free to fight you. Don’t lose sight of the battle.
The mistake is assuming people value what you sacrifice. They value what your sacrifice produces for them. Effort has no moral claim in a competitive world unless it changes outcomes. Stop asking to be honored for being tired. Build something they cannot ignore.
Poor and working class people are obsessed with morality and virtue because they haven’t found success in their life, so they cope by moving the goal post from external success to internal success, which they conveniently get to define. They don’t have the talent or work ethic to succeed, but still want to feel superior somehow, and what better way than pretending to be a good person, which requires nothing
People that are psychic experience tragedy at much higher rates and are suffering from reality’s immune system. They represent a disruption that, if left unchecked, would slowly corrode the entire reality matrix, and so agents of chaos are sent to maim their body and spirit. If ur magical, the universe tries to kill you.
you can always go harder, do more, try more. there is always more fuel left in the tank - it is up to you to dig deep and reach down to summon it. life is for the living
What is it to be a man?
~Socrates: It's self-mastery.
~Aristotle: It's virtue in action.
~Friedrich Nietzsche: It's the will to overcome.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky: It's suffering with dignity.
~Marcus Aurelius: It's discipline.
~Sigmund Freud: It's restrained chaos.
~Carl Jung: It's confronting the shadow.
~Sun Tzu: It's controlled power.
~Miyamoto Musashi: It's sharpened focus.
~Niccolò Machiavelli: It's calculated strength.
~Jean-Paul Sartre: It's responsibility.
~Viktor Frankl: It's meaning through pain.
~Bruce Lee: It's adaptation.
~Laozi: It's balance.
~Confucius: It's honor.
~Schopenhauer: It's enduring loneliness.
~Rumi: It's inner war and inner peace.
~Seneca: It's calm under pressure.
~Khalil Gibran: It's silent sacrifice.
Each man defines manhood by the demon he fights.
Normalize being very direct, very straight to the point and very assertive. A surprising amount of tension in adult life exist because people avoid saying what they actually mean.