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Nature and nurture are both externals. The only thing that is yours is the will to act.

 If you have nice parents, they would be nice no matter which of 200 million sperm found the egg. If you have good genes, that is not your character because you didn't accomplish that. The will to act is the important thing.
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If you tell people your actual experience, you will never have imposter syndrome.

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My relationship has mutually assured destruction.

 We both know we could ruin the other one, because we've done it before.
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Live with reasonable doubt, but don't have doubt that's beyond reasonable.

 Sometimes skepticism is unfalsifiable.
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Conceit in Buddhism is like literary conceit. It's comparing something seemingly unrelated to your true self.

 Except in Buddhism, you should let go of that conceit.
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When Christ was about to die, God actually did forsake him, because God goes along with everything.

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A demonic man gets mad when people forgive him, because he doesn't think he needs it. A perfect man knows he doesn't need forgiveness, but he doesn't mind when people grant it.

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If you are totally yourself, you'll start to take yourself for granted again.

 If you still celebrate yourself, that's OK for now too.
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When I say, "I suffer," I'm really asking myself, "I suffer?"

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If you're a householder and want emptiness of mind, you need an empty marriage.

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There's no such thing as assertiveness... only aggression and passiveness

 "Assertive" people are actually just assholes, and when passive people are firm they're still persecuted. Then, when doormats finally speak up the aggressive people have them arrested.
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Do whatever makes you happy, or be happy with whatever is done? I choose the second.

 And I do the moral thing. 
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When you become an anagami, there's physiological withdrawal from hate and craving. When the withdrawal effects go away you're an arahant.

 
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I'm still unhappy a lot of the time, but there's no dread, despair, despondency.

 That would be, "outrageous, egregious, preposterous." - Seinfeld
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