Read on Twitter
Perfectly expressed. The story of my life. https://twitter.com/GKCdaily/status/1243223235765960705
49% misanthrope, 51% philanthrope. If you can attain at least that ratio, you've accomplished something great.
It's extraordinarily difficult to sympathise with your contemporaries, because you have a vested interested in your own material outcome.
But you must try and view the problems of our time with a kind of benevolent hindsight, like we do when reading about past eras.
But you must try and view the problems of our time with a kind of benevolent hindsight, like we do when reading about past eras.
If you cannot do this, you have no right to shape the fate of a community, much less mankind.
If you cannot extract yourself from the picture, you're just haggling for a share of the pie.
If you cannot extract yourself from the picture, you're just haggling for a share of the pie.
Doing this on the political level is supremely difficult, because a good portion of the people you serve delight in Schadenfreude every time you suffer an injury (both literal and metaphorical).
This is why, as I'm prone to repeat, you must not derive your values from mankind.
This is why, as I'm prone to repeat, you must not derive your values from mankind.
Your strength must come from a deep, cosmic sense of righteousness. This is profoundly difficult, indeed it's an act of genius
It's the ability to see that the world cannot be anything other than it is, and that an essential harmony produces the good & the bad—to love it anyhow.
It's the ability to see that the world cannot be anything other than it is, and that an essential harmony produces the good & the bad—to love it anyhow.
This is such a difficult insight to attain that it almost never arrives in most people.
When you do finally glimpse it, HOLD IT. Read into its significance, let it properly swirl in your mind. Retain as much of it as possible, even if it becomes stale and lifeless afterwards.
When you do finally glimpse it, HOLD IT. Read into its significance, let it properly swirl in your mind. Retain as much of it as possible, even if it becomes stale and lifeless afterwards.
It disappears quickly, and it cannot be conjured again at will
When you artificially bring it about, it feels like you're cucking. Your whole body revolts against helping those who do you material harm. Therefore, a certain arrogance should fill the gap (an arrogance of wisdom).
When you artificially bring it about, it feels like you're cucking. Your whole body revolts against helping those who do you material harm. Therefore, a certain arrogance should fill the gap (an arrogance of wisdom).
This arrogance is properly founded in your greater wisdom, and it also agrees with your materialistic ego. If you sublimate this arrogance into productive thoughts, there shouldn't be too great a loss in ethics.
The art of anger is tied in with this.
The art of anger is tied in with this.
