The People from the horror stories are out there.
Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account
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Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account
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The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.
Very often people have a very limited way of thinking.
The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.
Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.