All is authorized, and over again, not anything. regardless of which approach we move, it's no higher than the other. it's all an identical even if you in attaining whatever or now not, have confidence or no longer, simply because it is all of the similar even if you cry or stay silent. there's a proof for every little thing, and but there's none. every little thing is either genuine and unreal, general and absurd, ideal and insipid. there's not anything worthy greater than anything, nor any concept larger than the other. Why develop unhappy from one's unhappiness and pleasure in one's pleasure? What does it topic even if our tears come from excitement or ache? Love your sadness and hate your happiness, combine every little thing up, scramble all of it! Be a snowflake dancing within the air, a flower floating downstream! Have braveness if you needn't, and be a coward should you needs to be courageous! Who understands? you should still be a winner! And in the event you lose, does it really count? Is there whatever to win during this global? All achieve is a loss, and all loss is a achieve. Why consistently anticipate a distinct stance, transparent principles, significant phrases? i think as though I should still spout hearth in keeping with all of the questions which have been ever positioned, or no longer placed, to me. 116 The assets of Evil How do we struggle disappointment? via suffering from ourselves, for disappointment comes from inside, no longer from with no. If lets consistently remind ourselves that every little thing is not anything yet a mirrored image in our realization, roughly sharp, counting on the acuity of our senses, shall we then reach a kingdom of lucidity within which truth may resume its actual proportions. we won't aspire to happiness, simply to much less disappointment. To dwell in depression is a mark of significant patience, while to develop uninteresting and silly after a very good disappointment is a mark of deficiency. strength of will and sustained internal attempt are required so as to scale down sadness. All efforts to achieve happiness, nevertheless, are completely futile. you can't retrace your steps as soon as you might have taken the trail to sadness; it's the course of no go back. From being chuffed, you'll turn into unsatisfied, so there are extra disagreeable surprises in happiness than in sadness. the area turns out correct to us after we are chuffed; whilst unsatisfied, we would like the area have been whatever yet what it really is. notwithstanding totally conscious that the resource of sadness is in us, we however flip a private disorder right into a metaphysical deficiency. disappointment is just not sufficiently beneficiant to recognize its personal darkness on this planet. Substituting for our subjective plight an aim one, we are hoping to lighten our burden and keep away from the reproaches which we should always actually handle to ourselves. yet such objectification truly deepens our unhappi- The resources of Evil ness and, providing it as cosmic fatality, shuts off any threat of lessening it or of constructing it extra bearable. The self-discipline of sadness explanations much less nervousness and less painful surprises; it abates discomfort and confines agony. it's a hide for an internal drama, the discreet masks of ache. Beauty's Magic tips Man's sensitivity to good looks grows as he will get toward happiness.