If you want to defeat someone's delusions you don't argue against them with the truth, you find out their biases and feed them delusions even greater than the ones they already possess.
They've already proven they hate truth, so you feed them even more attractive lies.
Just because it's important enough to be written, doesn't mean it needs to be sent.
Most of the benefit comes from self-expression, not from the unmet expectations of the intended recipient.
Seek release, not closure.
Write letters then burn them, sending them is overrated.
1) As a man, it is completely pointless to care about how much money another man has. It's his money, you can't spend it - so who cares? You should be more interested in his vibe and energy, his character, his intellect-
If a person's more interested in being right than discovering the truth, they care more about ego than reality, and as such, you should not dignify them with your true thoughts on issues.
Ignore them, or humour them with nonsense. True debate is the privilege of the worthy.
Ignorant people always want to give you advice, and if you're inexperienced you'll think they know what they're talking about - especially if they say it with enough passion and conviction.
But a good performance doesn't mean a wise message.
Discernment is everything.
Integrity is a better capital than money
You can accumulate it just like money
And you can use it just like money but it goes further and it's enduring.
A Short Essay on Wisdom and Suffering
There will be phases in your life where living seems intolerable, your emotions feel absolutely out of control, and your sense of being under attacked by a force that is beyond your intimate understanding.
There is a profound and mysterious darkness about such periods, and in the midst of their spectacle, you can't possibly uncover precisely how the feeling and sense has come about; and when you do have your suspicion, and come to some sort of understanding, you're still left questioning; how to overcome its burden, how to transcend its pain.
You may learn this very harshly and this may sound rather crude, but you don't know exactly to what precisely you must suffer to reach the height of your potential wisdom. That sounds daunting to hear, but I shall add one last thing: the extent of the necessary suffering means that you possess the capacity to endure it, but a transformation of consciousness is indispensable; it's not a choice, it's a moral obligation for purposeful living; in its absence, there is suffering, and only suffering.
Often, going with the tide, no matter how foolish you believe yourself to be, is the fastest route to knowledge and wisdom, even if it means additional pain. For many, this is the only gateway to enlightenment and actualisation.
If you read Dante's Inferno, you will understand. It is at the very core of hell that you find liberation; suffering slightly or modestly is insufficient for many, many ones must endure a harder blow to unravel the serious problem. There you will find peace, there you will find eternity; there greatness will unlatch your door and grant you freedom.
2) Being seduced by impractical logic is antithetical to wisdom, you just feel smart despite being wrong.
Like:
One unicorn plus one unicorn equals two unicorns — logical but false, unicorns don't exist.
1) Just because something's logical, doesn't mean it's wise. Something can make sense in and of itself, but when tested against reality yield an undesirable or inefficient outcome.
You endeavor to do something, and it doesn’t work.
You’re not appreciated for who you are.
You fail.
Maybe, you fail despite your best efforts.
Well, are you rejected by God?
The best we have might not always work, but it’s still the best we have.
#JordanPeterson
When you commit to something and make sacrifices. If something is valuable, you will make sacrifices to attain it. And that discovery of sacrifice it’s one of the primary factors separating human beings from animals.
Jordan Peterson
One of man's deepest desires is not to be a burden on anyone and to earn his way. Burdening others brings him shame. He aspires to self-sufficiency so he can be one that gives rather than takes. He does not pursue independence out of vanity, he covets self-reliance out of honour.
In a war of egos, if you consider the last thing you said rather than the last thing they said to be the final important thing, it's easy to let them have the last word.
You said what you had to say. Nothing that comes after is significant.
Punctuate, then detach into silence.
3) and negative experiences in different people and situations, and then we end up being constantly triggered, upset, hurt, and unable to learn and grow from it; life becomes dull and boring when you're unable to walk your path and improve, and no one in the right state of mind
2) Eventually you will be rewarded for it. All the hardships and toxic people are sent just to build us up by teaching us lessons/remind who we truly are, but if we are unable to understand, learn, and grow from it, then we most likely attract/manifest the same lessons,
1) The beautiful thing about the soul journey in this life is that you can always do more, and if you're not participating in unconscious self sabotage/living in survival mode, mistreating others, or doing some other toxic crap because you just don't know better,