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KNOW THYSELF
On all subjects learn what people can teach you, everything you learn will serve for your future, but question everything, find out.
Having parents who are well-balanced, you should think highly of yourself and be free to grow physically, mentally and spiritually; otherwise you might become dependent on someone in your family, in marriage, in the community to make your decisions and do your thinking for you, which unfortunately causes entropy, retrogression, not only in you, but in you as part of the world.
As they said in the sixties—if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem; it is something that you yourself decide as you did when you were about twelve, to sit down with no prompting to do your homework first, and then watch tv or whatever (delaying gratification, that is, the first step towards maturity) and the decision can come any time from about fifteen years old, that is, the acceptance of responsibility (the second step towards maturity). Dedication to truth, reality, is the third and last step—your life should be an open book, and you will learn that when you are the truth you see the truth with all your senses.
Living is suffering. If YOU live your life you are obliged when you are an adult, to continually make choices, decisions, judgements. It isn’t easy. It’s hard work. And changes, the unknown are frightening for everybody. But you won’t have time to worry to much about it if you are busy doing what you are most capable of doing. A job has no sense unless it absorbs you, as a game does. If it doesn’t, don’t do it. Do something for yourself and it’s for society too; it’s shallow, unsatisfying, and dull to conform.
Love yourself, value yourself, know yourself, don’t be or want to be or make someone else a pet. True love , trust, understanding always encourages spiritual growth.
Be glad you are different, be glad you don’t conform, but set an example quietly and calmly to survive. We all have a thousand faces and only we know them all. You mustn’t care what other people think of you. You alone are your best judge.
