Transcend
by Oozium
Robert Greene
You are going to die. There's no wiggling out of this absolute fact.
In the meantime, you have your life. But everything in your life is
at war against you. Entropy is ever present, eating away at what you
think you own, slowly taking away what you think is yours.
You turn away from entropy, again and again.
But entropy will always be there, looming like a moth attracted to your fire.
Death is always there, a looming specter.
It whispers into your ear, "Live!" it
says, "I am coming."
The battlefield doesn't have to be a warzone filled with dead bodies and hyperviolence.
It can just as easily be your life. It can just
as easily be you against death, you against your own mortal angst,
you against God.
And the
soundest strategy is elevated nonattachment.
On any battlefield, it is always wise to elevate yourself above it.
You elevate to prioritize what matters and what doesn't. To figure out what to give a fuck about and what to let slide.
As Rumi said,
The great part is that what's important and fulfilling is entirely up to you.
But there will always be consequences for your choices.
There will always be the greater law of the universe to contend
with. Better to align what you give a fuck about with the healthy
dictates of the cosmos so as to avoid the unhealthy consequences of
ignoring them.
To discover why written laws shrivel into nothingness beneath the primacy of the unwritten law of the interconnected cosmos.
As Hermann Hesse said,
You elevate to discover your own conscience as pure law.
To become
the personification of checks and balances. You see how the answer
is teaching people how to become bigger than the law, how to gain
the capacity to have their own conscience as pure law, and how to
become a more valuable human.
Because only elevated people with their own conscience as pure law will have the courage and humor needed to make things better than they are.
Only elevated people with their own conscience as pure law
will have the audacity to paint the universe red with their
insouciant curiosity, to mock the sinister self-seriousness that
outflanks them, and to create their own meaning.
Circular reasoning is straightened. Cognitive
dissonance is curtailed. Ideologies are flattened. Your mind opens
wide to the vital difference between possibility and probability.
You see how it's okay to shed outdated skin. To cut the dead weight. To burn off the dross. Life is too short to waste precious energy on outdated concepts or living in regret. The past is the past.
Elevated above
the battlefield, you see how it's okay to forgive yourself and
forgive your ancestors for their ignorance. It's okay to move on.
And as the world opens up, so do you.
Elevated above it all, your radical sense of humor transforms the battlefield into a daisy field.
The absurdity of the cosmic joke is a blackhole sun? So be it...
Elevated above the battlefield, you're able to turn the tables on
your existential angst and have a laugh...
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