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It’s Funny, But It’s True — It’s True, But It’s Not Funny: You Are What You Are Looking For

Why the oldest joke is also the one that costs the most — and how “you are what you are looking for” stops being a slogan There is a sentence you have probably met before, on a card or a wall or the back of a tea box: you are what you are looking for. […]

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Your Chronic Problem Has Survived Every Direct Attack — It Will Dissolve Only in a Counterintuitive Synthesis

Why a chronic problem never falls to direct attack — and what kind of synthesis it finally dissolves in Most problems in a life respond to competence. You analyse them, you work at them, they move. This post is about the other kind — the one problem that has not moved. The chronic one. The

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There Is No Way to Free Yourself — There Is Only the Way You Make and Walk Yourself

What it means that no method can free you — and why you can only make your own way by walking it I want to start with the thing I spent thirty years looking for, because I no longer believe it exists. The method. The right practice, the right teacher, the right sequence of steps

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There Is No Way to Break Your Covenant With the One and Only Truth — And You Have Tried Everything

What a Covenant with the One and Only Truth actually is — and why it can be neither signed nor broken I want to begin with the fear, because I know it from the inside. The fear that I have, somewhere along the way, broken faith with the thing I was looking for. That I

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