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Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. That’s the counterintuitive thing about improvement. We think we need to change our results, but the results are not the problem. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results. When you solve problems at the results level, you only solve them temporarily. In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
My own theory is that the obsessive pursuit of sex is an attempt to obliterate the ego, i.e., "normal" consciousness, the monkey-mind that tortures us with restlessness, fear, anger, and self-centeredness. We're trying to get to the level above that. The entity we're seeking union with is ourselves. We're trying to connect with our true being, our soul, our Self.
Turning Pro
Steven Pressfield
Seemed like a fact of the universe that the closer you got to anything, the worse it looked.
Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey
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