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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
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Even your family eventually betrays you
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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My Shit Don’t Stink
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Paranoid personality disorder (PPD)
Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental disorder characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. Individuals with this personality disorder
may be hypersensitive, easily insulted, and habitually relate to the
world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions
that may validate their fears or biases. Paranoid individuals are eager
observers. They think they are in danger and look for signs and threats
of that danger, potentially not appreciating other evidence.
They tend to be guarded and suspicious and have quite constricted
emotional lives. Their reduced capacity for meaningful emotional
involvement and the general pattern of isolated withdrawal often lend a quality of schizoid isolation to their life experience. People with PPD may have a tendency to bear grudges, suspiciousness,
tendency to interpret others’ actions as hostile, persistent tendency to
self-reference, or a tenacious sense of personal right. Patients with this disorder can also have significant comorbidity with other personality disorders.
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Gospel of Matthew 16:2b–3 (the signs of the times)
Greek
Ὀψίας γενομένης λέγετε, Εὐδια, πυρράζει γὰρ ὁ οὐρανός καὶ πρωὶ,
Σήμερον χειμών, πυρράζει γὰρ στυγνάζων ὁ οὐρανός. τὸ μὲν πρόσωπον τοῦ
οὐρανοῦ γινώσκετε διακρίνειν, τὰ δὲ σημεῖα τῶν καιρῶν οὐ δύνασθε.
Translation (RSV)
When it is evening, you say, “It will be fair weather; for the sky is
red.” And in the morning, “It will be stormy today, for the sky is red
and threatening.” You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky,
but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
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Passion Versus Obsession
Because passionate people are driven to create as a way to grow and achieve their potential, they are constantly seeking out others who share their passion in a quest for collaboration, friction and inspiration. Because they have a strong sense of self, passionate people are well-equipped to form relationships. They present themselves in ways that invite trust – they have little time for pretense and they are willing to express vulnerability and need in order to receive the help they need in achieving their own potential. Because they are passionate, they are willing to share their own knowledge and experience when they encounter someone sharing their passion. They are also intensely curious, seeking to understand the other passionate people they encounter in order to better see where and how they can collaborate to get better faster.
In contrast, obsessive people hide behind their objects of obsession. The objects are what are important, not others or even themselves. As a result, obsessive people are hard to get to know and trust – they share little of themselves and they exhibit minimal interest or curiosity regarding the needs or feelings of others. One of the hallmarks of obsessive people is that they tend to talk endlessly and often repetitively about the same thing, rarely inviting commentary or reaction from others, and ultimately pushing others away with their obsessive rants.