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those who justify themselves do not convince,
Been thinking about this a lot as I've been reading other spiritual teachers. Trying to build a credibility foundation can sometimes mask the introspective voice that people like Watts want to surface in their readers. Rather than evaluate the message you evaluate the foundation. The flipside though can also be dangerous, as teachers leverage an emotional state to sell ungrounded dogma to their followers.
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
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“Gleason is one of those people … Kesey can remember them all, people who thought he was great so long as his fantasy coincided with theirs. But every time he pushed on further—and he always pushed on further—they became confused and resentful”
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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