06-16-2018, 10:38 PM
Thanks Raz!
Nice one Ben, what I found was that it’s been one of the things that have oriented me toward a strong commitment to being honest.
It’s so counter intuitive.
I never realised that committing to being honest with yourself means less self criticism because excess
criticism is mostly neurotic and not true. Further more it’s made me smarter because so much less bandwidth is taken up by trying to look good.
Accepting yourself as well - rather than making me more lazy and ok with my flaws it’s gjven me space to work on them - again less Time trying to ignore them, hide them and pretend they don’t exist.
Responsibility for my life has meant LESS guilt and less resentment and anger because it’s a total bringing home of power, there’s nothing you can’t have at least some responsibility for.
He basically took Ayn Rands objectivism and turned it into a philosophy of self development - albeit slightly more developed than Ayn Rand who just became too narrow IMO. Crazy to think he actually had a relationship with her as well!
Nice one Ben, what I found was that it’s been one of the things that have oriented me toward a strong commitment to being honest.
It’s so counter intuitive.
I never realised that committing to being honest with yourself means less self criticism because excess
criticism is mostly neurotic and not true. Further more it’s made me smarter because so much less bandwidth is taken up by trying to look good.
Accepting yourself as well - rather than making me more lazy and ok with my flaws it’s gjven me space to work on them - again less Time trying to ignore them, hide them and pretend they don’t exist.
Responsibility for my life has meant LESS guilt and less resentment and anger because it’s a total bringing home of power, there’s nothing you can’t have at least some responsibility for.
He basically took Ayn Rands objectivism and turned it into a philosophy of self development - albeit slightly more developed than Ayn Rand who just became too narrow IMO. Crazy to think he actually had a relationship with her as well!
Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
