Adrian Kiswani
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“If you confront the limitations of life courageously, that provides you with a certain psychological purpose that serves as an antidote to the suffering.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
“We literally make the world what it is, from the many things we perceive it could be. Doing so is perhaps the primary fact of our being, and perhaps of Being itself. We face a multitude of prospects---of manifold realities, each almost tangible---and by choosing one pathway rather than another, reduce that multitude to the singular actuality of reality. In doing so, we bring the world from the becoming into Being. This is the most profound of mysteries. What is that potential that confronts us? And what constitutes our strange ability to shape that possibility, and to make what is real and concrete from what begins, in some sense, as the merely imaginary? (pg. 254, Hardcover, Rule IX)”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
“As long as a man trades his warrior instinct for entertainment, his soul will not be satisfied. He will be perpetually bored, searching for a way to kill time and quell his longings. A man who’s consumed by his mission, however, who knows what life is about and his part to play, doesn’t need a distraction. His life is the adventure.”
― The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well
― The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well
“When a son is born, the father throws a naked sword before him and says: 'I leave you no inheritance. All you possess is what you can gain with this sword.”
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