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These Several Other Lives: Part II

Your intuition is a voice that you should not only listen to, but amplify. As long as you are alive, all doings are [potential] skillsets as such, to increase your intuitive proficiency. But as with all things, a type of knowledge is required: the best over-all knowledge is wisdom. The most active knowledge is discernment. All other knowledge, though impressive, amounts to nothing. The only echo chamber I refuse to touch on (for the sake of not having to repeat myself so long-windingly) are outer bubbles. You can listen to all other voices, but it will never be good enough because you are living to a generic standard you didn’t agree to and also to a more specific standard of the ones you admire/are closest to/have to interact with. Even if they are correct; when needing verification/justification for what is right -more than alignment, there still needs to be room for error. In which I mean: if you are able to question it and obtain a different answer (or even if you can’t create a...

These Several Other Lives: Part I

Chapter 7: Hearing Echoes -Determining the Size of Your Chamber  The mind is not empty that is filled with echoes. If more voices occupy that mind, it is not big enough. This isn’t to say that you need a bigger mind so it can be filled with even more voices ~ [but] it is to say that being able to manage a small region *should* give you the discipline to manage a bigger area. Changing size means changing strategies and change (more often than not) means progression (even if regression. At the end of the day, change is neither good nor bad because it is the process by which you acquire the end result). But, this is not the space for lauding process so much as processing out why echo chambers are obviously bad and insidiously dangerous -as such must be fought. We are not all born fighters but we must all learn to fight. It’s not enough that everything seems to be stacked against you but that you must also fight yourself. Reality says you have many fronts to engage however, the sec...