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Who's my guide? People around me. I see how they're living and i tell myself: "this is not how I want to live!"

God and his paradoxes, how the soul sees so clearly in the darkness of nights...

“At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice doesn’t pay.”

You've found meaning in a particular idea. It feels valuable and important to you. You tell me about your idea and the meaning you've found in it. I listen carefully to your words, but I do not share in your conclusion. I cannot see the meaning of your idea. For me, the story you've crafted around it doesn't seem real or plausible.

“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.”

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”

“Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present — thoughtfully, justly.”

Our ability to agree is important when we need to make decisions about our shared future. I might judge that the most significant facts lead to one conclusion, whereas you might feel other facts are more salient and support a different conclusion. Usually this is not a problem, as we can simply discuss the merits of the facts until we reach a conclusion that we can both accept.

“We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.”

“I know that you might get angry at me, will shout at me, stamping your feet. ‘Speak,’ you’ll say, ‘for yourself alone and about your misères in the underground, but don’t dare to speak for all of us.’ Allow, gentlemen, that I am not trying to vindicate myself with this all-of-us-ness. What pertains to me personally is that which I alone have carried to extremes in my life, that which you didn’t dare carry half way through, and you even took your cowardice to be prudence, and took comfort in it, lying to yourselves. And so, perhaps, I come out as more ‘alive’ than you. Yes, take a closer look!”

Truths aren't found or discovered. You simply create them and live them. Whatever makes life a little more liveable and enjoyable, adapt them into your psyche. It becomes your truth. No, you aren't even here contesting empirical or universal truths but the point being made is about all those little truths that you embrace for your personal journey. Truths that aren't here to be preached but ones that are essential to move forward in your life...

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