The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.
Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.
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Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.
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The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.
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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.
I spent so much time thinking about regret. Regret and its accompanying conviction that there is a perfect, placid life, one's own alternate existence, pristine and simple, existing in a neighboring reality in which certain turns in the road were never set upon. And it isn't true. Any of it. I knew that. I had learned it. But it is an irresistible fantasy, if only because it implies we have some control over our fates.