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The mixed martial arts pioneer and multi-title champion Frank Shamrock has a system he trains fighters in that he calls plus, minus, and equal. Each fighter, to become great, he said, needs to have someone better that they can learn from, someone lesser who they can teach, and someone equal that they can challenge themselves against.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
So in our timidity, let each of us make a choice: Whether to remain a conscious servant of falsehood (of course, it is not out of inclination, but to feed one’s family, that one raises his children in the spirit of lies). Or to shrug off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect both by one’s children and contemporaries.
Live Not by Lies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Gnostic creation story holds that gnosis is revealed knowledge of a true god that lies behind the god of the religions or behind Nature's God. But it sees those things as Nature's God or the god of the religions, your God as a demonic architect or Artisan called the demiurge. It is evil, it is not good because it was born in the sin of wisdom who wanted to create, which wasn't its station. So it alienates man from his true nature, imprisons him in the world, imprisons him in being, imprisons him as a spiritual being in the mundane. Locks him in a mortal body that's going to die, that is made of material that gets sick, and in a world that has fallen in material and is filled with perils and evils and diseases. Gnosis of this truth opens the door in the faith to an escape from the prison. That means when you construct a hyperreality, if you can make it real, you get out of prison. It's how they actually do it. Gnostics, therefore, create and project hyperrealities because they simulate what they think is really real the image of the divine plan.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
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