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We grew up and realized nothing was as it seemed. The foodstuff that was so available in our houses that it almost became part of the natural landscape of the house, somebody had to spend hours of his everyday life to ensure that, but chose to shield us from knowing it. We've...
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#BeMesmerized
Qari: Abdullahi Abba Zaria (Nigeria)
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Today, after seven years of work, The Law of the Sublime is out in the world.
When I started this book, I had an ambitious plan. I would go down the Amazon, find chimpanzees in the wilds of Africa, and cross the Gobi Desert, then write about those experiences of awe.
Then, on a hot August afternoon in 2018, I had a stroke while driving in Los Angeles. A blood clot cut off oxygen to my brain, and within seconds I lost consciousness. When I woke up in the hospital, I learned how close I had come to the point of no return. My left hand was frozen into a claw, and I could barely feel my left leg, but something strange happened.
On the ambulance ride home, I looked out at the people on the street, and for a moment I felt I could be inside their bodies and hear their thoughts. It was marvelous and weird, and I knew it was time to write this book.
I couldn't type, so I wrote every page by hand, dictated it, printed it out, and edited it all over again. I couldn't take the long hikes that had carried me through my six previous books. Then one afternoon I woke from a nap in my backyard to find a grasshopper inches from my face, and I understood that this small backyard would have to be my Amazon jungle. The lizards, the hummingbirds, the insects became my teachers.
My limits turned out to be a blessing. They forced me to find the Sublime in the simplest things, and that is what this book is about.
Most of us live inside a circle: an everyday consciousness shaped by culture, convention, and, more and more, technology. That circle keeps shrinking, and we grow bored and restless. Just outside it is the Sublime, a realm that is frightening and exciting at once, pulling us out of our comfort zones and opening us to a much wider reality. The book maps 12 points outside that circle, and each one is a different face of the Sublime.
Inside, you'll find stories of near-death encounters, astonishing discoveries, and radical changes of consciousness, along with exercises and meditations so you can feel the Sublime yourself, not just read about it.
The Sublime doesn't require travel or exotic adventures. It only requires a new pair of eyes for the reality all around you.
The Law of the Sublime is available now in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.
Thank you for your support of my work. I hope you enjoy reading this book, and I look forward to hearing your feedback.
With gratitude,
Robert Greene
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Dear Wanderer,
Time is the king of perspective.
It changes what we consider important, what we are willing to tolerate, what we regret and even what we remember. Things that once consumed us eventually become inconsequential. People we thought we could never live without become distant memories, and what once seemed impossible to survive becomes something we can speak of without trembling.
Yet time has a peculiar way of revealing the worth of things we were too distracted, impatient or immature to appreciate when they were ours. The ordinary days, the familiar voices, the affection we mistook for permanence. Some losses grow smaller with distance, while others acquire a weight we never recognised in their presence.
Time does not change what happened, nor does it make every wrong acceptable. It changes the eyes with which we remember. What once seemed a cruel ending may come to make sense, and what once felt like certainty may become difficult to defend.
So be careful, dear Wanderer, what you declare permanent in a passing season. The certainty you hold so fiercely today may one day become the very thing you struggle to explain to your future self.
©️ Tabreez
I so much love this video!
And I pity all those who have no clear understanding of this dynamics.
It's expectation that makes people treat the rich with respect, and the poor gets none. The rich know this, and they exploit it silently.
Most times, there'll be nothing for you!
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The richest people understand the dark arts more than you do. They will use and dump you if you’re not wise.
Enjoy.
A month into Housejob, someone who's been doing this job for over 10 years will call you to set a line he'll claim he'd tried but couldn't get.
Truth is he didn't try enough, because he had an option. You'll get the line because you have no one to call to do it at 3am.
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Hmm God will bless Iya Hameedah for me, her very first counsel when I told her I wasn't coming back home after NYSC was a prayer and then:
“Yóò bùn mí, yóò bùn mí ni tálákà fi ń dẹrú olówó.”
“It is through the constant expectation that the wealthy will give him something that the poor man makes himself a slave to the wealthy.”
The deeper meaning is about the loss of independence that comes from perpetual expectation. When you become convinced that another person holds the answer to your circumstances, you gradually surrender your agency to them, sometimes without their knowledge or even their consent.
The bondage begins with the expectation, long before anyone makes a promise.
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first of all, many people don’t understand that wealthy people can spot a beneficial talent from a mile away, and they are very good at poaching individuals amongst others to serve their own interests. conversely, or rather unfortunately, they don’t reciprocate that burning desire they had for you when it is time to reward you. at your lowest, you might eventually discover that that “elite” is just another user like any of these Nigerian girls.
it might interest you to know that no influential or wealthy person is going to look out for you the way you think. more often than not, they give you a gentle, little nudge that tickles your fancy, and that is all you will ever get if you did not snap out of that delusion.
people who are intentional about what they want around wealthy and influential people don’t get it as simply as people outside of that frame often think. there are two ways: it is either you are extremely fanatical, a lowlife, a praise singer, a soft-pedaler, or you are a thief. or you can use brute force to achieve your aims, be sneaky, cheat, a cynical cunning lore like them. there is no in between. there is no big reward anywhere. no wealthy or influential person will sign a check that will change your life without any political undertone to it. even at strictly business level, you are still going to get played.
also, proximity to that wealth or influence doesn’t mean you wield it or have a say in what it does to you or people around you. you are just a pawn in a chess game, and there’s a master player. the day your desperation (ambition by the way) becomes known is the day you are thrown. you will be an ungrateful idiot.
and those people like to throw the word loyalty around, that’s their ultimate weapon against any sensible person who has seen through their deception. your quest to get better or explore opportunities becomes a thing of questionable loyalty. it is as if they forget loyalty should be mutually beneficial, at least in my own opinion.
that’s why, more often than not, people who make it big through these wealthy and influential figures tend to fall out with them. because they reached a certain level that the dark arts no longer work on them, and they can thrive just as well with or without those connections. mind you, such leverage was never in the plan.
now, this doesn’t necessarily mean you are dealing with evil people. they are just better and more skilled than you in the dark arts of life. just do your thing, watch out for yourself.
at best, you are going to be just like them too when you work your way up to the top. LOL
Since watching 24, I have never come across any movie where that guy who acted Habib Marwan isn't a villain.
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"You will only settle in heaven"
I absolutely agree! By the time you're thinking you're just about to settle, age begins to take its toll on you.
With life, the solution to one problem swiftly merges into the beginning of another. Always.
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I have completed the season one of 24 and all I can say is, God bless whoever recommended this show to me.
I am in the beginning of season 2 now, I feel like I need a break from every other thing just to focus on this show cos Damn!!!! 🔥🔥
