If you are a good man and you are spiritually strong enough to not be corrupted by money, and you don't have much money, then you have a moral obligation to make a lot of money so that it is in your hands being wielded in a righteous way, rather than in far less benevolent hands.

The spiritual purpose of sleep is to integrate chaos into a metabolisable form that can be understood and accepted without driving you so utterly mad you can no longer function or find peace. This is why sleep is to be respected, rather than viewed as an imposition.

before kids you think love is finite, like there's only so much to go around. then you meet this tiny dictator who steals your sleep and bankrupts your wallet and somehow creates infinite new rooms in your heart you didn't know were there

A father holds his daughter's hand crossing the street and doesn't realize he's teaching her that the world is dangerous but she is protected, that chaos exists but order walks beside her, and twenty years later when she chooses a man she will unconsciously seek the echo of that

The Modern Morning Suffering Cycle: Wake up in a haze with insufficient REM sleep Insufficient REM = poor emotional processing Open social media Blue light hits eyes Cortisol response Social media has fear mongering and emotionally reactive content Cortisol rises more

i remember when looking up meant something before we trained our necks to bow to rectangles. now the sky is just blue void between buildings, interrupted by planes carrying people who don't look up either. the sky remembers when we used to remember it

Men today are expected to be a provider, emotional genius, and immovable dominant protector who's fully sensitive to her inner storms, whilst sustaining lifelong attraction without religious, cultural, or community backing. An absolutely brutal asymmetry most men cannot master.

The ability to be productive - to be useful - is in itself therapeutic. Uselessness breeds hopelessness where usefulness instils sovereignty. You need to be competent not just for other people's sake, but for your own - so that you can respect you in appreciating what you add.

A man who cannot protect what he loves is not a man but a museum of good intentions, and a woman who will not let herself be protected is not liberated but orphaned from her own power. and when man and woman stop playing these games where one pretends to be the other - when he

The deepest tension in the feminine psyche is the fear that surrender will erase her rather than complete her. This is the ultimate gamble a girl can make - one she is drawn to and craves, yet fears like nothing else because the difference for her between heaven and hell is

A Letter to the Young: There’s an entire society of fools trying to stop people like you from listening to people like me. They’ll tell you I’m dangerous or deranged, and they’ll ridicule me with baseless slander, not because they can prove me wrong - but because they’re

The goal of everyday is to leave nothing in the tank. No love in the tank. No energy in the tank. No work in the tank. To go to sleep empty, with every ounce of potential squeezed out. Then wake up and do it again tomorrow.

Never dooming is more important now than ever. We live in perhaps what is the most psychologically subversive and draining era imaginable. You must find ANY source of positive energy and motivation to pull yourself out from the pit. It is my duty. I will not fail you. NEVER DOOM.

You have one life. One pulse of time in which to prove your vision was real. And that vision - if it’s true - must be proven in blood, sweat, and demonstration - not just in procrastinating abstract thought or in idealistic longing.

The greatest sin I regularly commit against life is to wish away the present moment in favor of a future moment. This accomplishes nothing while undermining a large chunk of life.

Ruthlessness is a burden a man owes the world to be seen as one.

A person who lives only in service to others will eventually become rebellious and seek to serve only themselves - from slavery to mastery. A person who lives only for themselves will eventually become dissatisfied and seek to create and serve something greater - from mastery to

Man's reason rebels against believing in miracles, and he is condemned to look at the miracle of all miracles every day: endless skies speckled with stars. There is an end- there is no end. For a human mind, this miracle has been and will remain totally incomprehensible.

This quote has been stuck in my head for hours

Within man lives two wolves. Conqueror and governor. Protector and predator. Hedonist and ascetic. And all such appetites are as much confessions as they are reflections of the duality of one's nature. Desire is diagnostic - appetite exposes the self by confronting the self.