Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
Interpretation
Acknowledge the importance of understanding reality to succeed.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of having an authentic relationship with reality; a false perception leads to misguided actions and ultimately failure. To navigate life effectively, one must align their beliefs and actions with the true nature of their circumstances.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of self-awareness, this quote can underscore how we must face the truth.
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
In a dream you are never eighty.
The unyielding army will not win.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.
β¦ and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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