Mishima embraces the Yomeigaku (阳明学) creed: "To know and not to act is not to know." To break through the "night of the world", heroic resolve is needed. Those who refuse risk sinking into the abyss of their own diminished existence.

what is one thing you would want to see out of an RPG game with this style?

You can never get ahead of your shadow unless you're facing the Sun

“Once you have this vision that all is divine, you start looking at things in a new light. Then the world is no more puzzle, no more a problem, no more a question – not a question to be solved but a mystery to be lived.” ~ Osho

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Your nervous system doesn’t need a five-year plan. It needs stability. One meal. One clean night. One good sleep. Momentum is built when you reduce chaos. Don't aim for forever. Aim for today, and let repetition do what motivation can’t.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

Wise words from Jack London: “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

"Music - my rampart. Good ol' Ludwig, old courage-giver, hero of Western man." Edward Abbey - Confessions of a Barbarian, October 24, 1986 - Tucson

Reading a book will subconsciously rewire your brain even if you can't consciously recall much of what you've read.

How dostoevsky felt after writing a book about gambling to pay off his gambling debts

Kapil Gupta

Trust Has Nothing to Do with the Object of Trust… #Osho Trust is unconditional. It simply says that, ‘I have that quality which trusts. Now, it is irrelevant what happens to my trust – whether it is respected or not, whether it is deceived or not. That is not the point at

Taking personally the reaction or behavior of a person behaving in the only way they know how is self-flagellation.

Will Manidis

Befriending yourself is the only activity that has no shortcuts, you can’t cheat yourself on the journey of becoming whole, you can’t fake the core, every trick eventually wears off. Joyce: “Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”