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Realizing you're not better or worse than anyone makes you happy. That doesn't make you better though. Happiness doesn't make you anything. It is an end in and of itself.

If you can experience pain despite quietude, then you can experience confidence despite skepticism.

Gods are joyful. Titans are excitable. Demons are angry. Ghosts are distressed. Humans are curious. Animals are sad.

Hume startled me from my restful dogmatic slumber, but 20 years later I got some R and R.

If someone condemns you, they have already paid for it because they had to suffer the emotion of having to condemn you. So forgive them.

The punishment for feeling hate is that in that very moment you will feel hateful, which is unpleasant.

When your enemy is hating you, they are not happy right then. So that's good.

 They may be happy at other times, but those times don't relate to you.

You're only corrupted because you have power. However, if you willfully don't relinquish your power, then it's your fault.

I foolishly followed another's folly. Then someone answered my foolish following of their folly and I stopped.

Don't compare. Although you could. But don't.

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The lady doesn't doth protest too much. She doth protests just enough

Not ignoring ignorance is ignorance.

Proverbs.

Spiritual bypassing is not a problem. I bypassed it.

If you have a big ego, occasionally realizing you are just another guy on the bus can be helpful.