- You will do everything within your power to ensure your existence – this is the cause of all your suffering
- When you are stronger others are weaker. When you are weak others are stronger. The basis of almost all human interaction.
- Reality is too brutal to be seen for what it is – and so you will deny and distract yourself from its seeming futility.
- Knowledge that affirms is self deception. Knowledge that negates is truth. You do not and cannot know anything of substance.
- Nothing exists outside your mind, although things clearly exist outside your body.
- Your sense of “I” is as much an illusion of the mind as the experience of the color red. There is no self.
- The illusion created by your mind is all encompassing – except for one thing. The illusion exists, and the fact of existence is the only affirmative truth you will ever know.
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