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“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” ~Dostoevsky On a long enough timeline everything is stardust. Every bone in your body. Every friend on your friend’s list. Every book on your bookshelf. Every philosophy ever known. Every philosophy not even known. All of it, will someday be stardust. What seems important now will be inconsequential tomorrow, and probably always was. So, it stands to reason that any perennial philosophy would humble

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.” ~Ludwig Wittgenstein What does it mean to wake up just enough to know that we are dreaming? It means that the “Truth” is out there, but it is not necessarily ours to grasp. It means we are “asleep” to how the universe really works. We are “asleep” to knowing why we’re here or what it all means or how we can even begin to figure it out. Knowing that we’re dreaming is reali

“The road to heaven feels like hell. The road to hell feels like heaven.” ~Unknown The labyrinth is a metaphor for navigating change. It stands as a monolithic structure that represents both the unknown and the subtle art of transforming the unknown into wisdom. More importantly, it is a mythopoetic symbol for finding oneself. The labyrinth is the place you go to shed your cultural conditioning. It’s where you stretch your comfort zone into discomfort. In fact, anything o

“Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.” ~Jung Why is it vital to “get in the middle,” as Jung states? Because otherwise, we are behind the curve. Otherwise, we are outflanked by idealism, idolatry, and idleness. Getting in the middle flips the script. We go from being outflanked to outflanking, ahead of the game, playing the Infinite Game while those stuck in black and white thinking are stuck p

“Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature... Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.” ~C.G. Jung Madness is a pathfinder. Without madness, without the crazy courage to do the taboo thing, the audacious thing, the insouciant thing, the eccentric thing, the unpopular thing, the

“The wise man pretends to be a fool.” ~Shakespeare On a long enough timeline, all timelines disintegrate. The road to self-mastery is a journey not a destination. It’s a process not a result. It’s ultimately a fool’s errand that only a wise man can understand in hindsight. You either learn and surrender, or you learn and get stuck. If you learn and surrender, then you are going through the painful motions of humiliating your multiplicity of false selves. If you learn and