Be willing to suffer, to give up everything, in the service of something greater than oneself. Do not seek pleasure or security first. Submit to inconvenience, suspense, and uncertainty. Give until it hurts.

Do not lie to yourself.
Imagine what might have happened.
Shorn of the petty, only truth remains,
Do not escape.
Be willing to suffer.
Fight for inner liberty.
Resist every automatism.
No politics, nationalism, religion.
No authority, no ideology. No philosophy. No teacher. No belief.
No small talk, gossip, entertainment.

Resist all forms of external determinism, including biology, culture and ideology. Refuse to participate in anything that is false, illusory, idolatrous, illusion, trivial or degraded. Avoid artificial sources of mood changes. Do not glorify the tangential. Stop peer consciousness. Do not succumb to the pressure of the everyday. Conquer the strange lethargy that fortifies mere self.





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