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A lifelong discipline of focus and sacrifice into enlightenment, not an instant result of taking the course.
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A lifelong discipline of focus and sacrifice into enlightenment, not an instant result of taking the course.
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The course offers a path rather than instant immortality or godhood; the path requires focus and sacrifice over a lifelong journey.
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"...way it works. Okay? What I will show you is a path. But it's up to you to focus and sacrifice yourself on this..."
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"But it's a journey that requires sacrifice. It's a journey that requires you to fully learn the great books. I can't teach you all..."
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"...believe, no, it's important to behave badly because that is the path to God. That's the path to wisdom. That's the path to enlightenment..."
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"...uh in order to set the empire on a more sustainable path and so they end up eliminating all these reformers uh and you..."
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"...and so roman empire was set on a on a declining path where basically it was the road to perdition like there was nothing..."
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"...see that today's western empire is also on a steeply declining path and so one part of the uh quote -unquote elites wants to..."
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"...found myself within a shadowed forest. For I had lost a path that does not stray. It is hard to speak of what it..."
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"...Dante into hell. And Virgil emphasizes to Dante, this is a path that we must take if we are to go into paradise. You..."
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"...on is that Virgil chooses to be here. There are many paths for salvation reduction for him. But he wants to stay in hell...."
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"Do not attempt to block his fated path. Our passage has been willed above, where one can do what he has willed and ask..."
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"...shut up, man. Okay? Do not attempt to block his fated path. Our passion has been willed above where one can do what he..."
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"...found myself within a shadowed forest. For I had lost a path that does not stray. It is hard to speak of what it..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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