If you gaze into the abyss long enough, you see the light, not the darkness.

I'm betting my life on it, bring it on, the adventure along the route, man.

And I would say, where's that adventure to be found?

You don't want someone else's fate.

Man, your fate's enough, and your adventure's enough. It's plenty.

It's more than you can ever fully realize.

And so that's also part of the reason that we all believe that the individual has some intrinsic dignity.

Don't be so sure that your position and your room is so damn trivial.

It might be your attitude towards its trivial.

And if you're in dire straits and dire circumstances, just look at how much opportunity you have to make things better.

Well, maybe the same thing's true of life, right?

You bind yourself to it, and that tighter you bind yourself to it, the more you find out what it is.

And that's like a radical embrace.

We're built to walk uphill.

And when you reach the pinnacle of the hill, you want to stop and appreciate the vision.

But the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance, because it's from the uphill climb that we derive our value.

Almost all the positive emotion we feel, especially the emotion that fills us with enthusiasm.

That's experienced in relationship to a goal.

And so in some sense, you want a goal that you can never attain.

There's nothing that makes you more formidable than verbal competence.

And being able to articulate, be able to think to marshal your arguments, right?

Aim yourself in one direction, and you might say, well, I've gone halfway down this path, and I found out it's wrong.

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