Your soul

If you do not occupy it with what is right, it will occupy you with what is wrong.

-Ibn Taymiyyah

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Desire without discipline is simply a cheap drug with no cure.

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To be honest with oneself, to the point of complete humiliation, to the point of complete self-transparency, is the only sensible means to create beauty out of one's own disfigurement. The courageous act of unrelenting sincerity, at its culmination, delivers me from unending disgrace, and in spite of my flaws I have destroyed denial, that lies at the helm of deception and dishonesty.

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The quality of one’s thoughts produces the quality of one’s life.

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People suffering due to factors outside their control deserve all the compassion and assistance you can give them.

People who manufacture victimhood out of nothing, for the sake of winning status in a victim hierarchy, deserve your disdain.

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The devil won’t tempt you with fear always. He’ll often tempt you with comfort.

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Protip: When you take a hit, learn & quickly move from that headspace.

Feel it in the moment, assess the damage...and refocus forward

Never mentally stay in places you do not wish to live.

— Dr Julie Gurner

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John Steinbeck wrote in a journal every morning before he wrote what became The Grapes of Wrath. There in the journal we get to see Steinbeck daily reminding himself what it takes to finish such a project.

“There are so many things to go into this book. An astonishing number of things,” he writes. “This is a huge job. Musn’t think of its largeness but only of the little picture while I am working.” Nearly a dozen times, he tells himself some version of, “just a stint every day does it.” “Just do the day’s work.” “Just work a certain length of time and it will get done poco a poco.” “Just a matter of doing the daily stint.” “Just a stint every day does it. I keep forgetting.” “Just worry about the day’s work. That’s the only way to do it, I have found. But damn it, I have to learn it over again every time.” I think it’ll be my motto this week: Just do the daily stint.



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If you do someone a favor, but you do it grudgingly or with complaining, they wont feel that you have done them a favor. They will feel annoyed.

Either grant the favor graciously or refuse as politely as possible.

Granting a favor grudgingly, is foolishness.

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The man who controls his vices controls his future.

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DQN is a cyberpunk anime set in an alternate timeline where World War II never ended, and it evolved into something stranger. The battlefield moved from trenches to terminals.

Nations collapsed, replaced by AI-driven empires, hacker syndicates, and digital cults who fight not for land, but for control over data, influence, and perception itself.

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Your emotional attachment to a person is not driven by how long you have known them.

It is driven by the intensity of the experiences you have shared with them, and the degree to which the conversations you have had with them were about things that actually matter.

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Steve Jobs explains why motivation can't be forced:

“I've never found in my whole life that you could convince someone who doesn't want to work hard to work hard.”

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Being able to see the good in people quite literally makes you more successful in life.

When someone leaves a tiny hint about an insecurity they have about themselves it becomes very easy to subtly and authentically reaffirm them in the flow of conversation.

This alone will make you extremely likeable and your presence becomes addictive.

You find people just go out of their way to help you in a subconscious effort to repay you for how you make them feel.

Say you notice the girl who's quiet and shy so you compliment her smooth voice or her unique and gorgeous accent.

The guy who always wears black and baggy clothes and you mention he's looking especially trim today.

A cheeky wink and delicate touch as you pass by someone that you know rarely gets romantic interest the more specific it is the better.

It becomes very easy when it's genuine since you've trained your eye to see the good in people and your tongue to effortlessly vocalise it.

Nature has declared this rule inviolable:

Those who give more to life often find that they get much more from life

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Darkness will rule over your Soul

until you find Light inside yourself.

You cannot find it anywhere else.

It cannot be learned from any book or teacher.

No amount of Wealth or Power can get it for you.

If you do not understand...I cannot save you.

Corporate Machiavelli