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To be human is to do battle with one's own heart and become wiser, gentler, more poetic, and more generous through recognized guilt.
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Wisdom
Jiang uses Buddhist and Hindu reincarnation as a model for wisdom: souls assume many roles through pain and suffering until empathy produces enlightenment.
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Jiang uses Buddhist and Hindu reincarnation as a model for wisdom: souls assume many roles through pain and suffering until empathy produces enlightenment.
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Only through trauma, pain, and suffering can one access empathy and wisdom; spending a life with the Iliad can give a person a universe in the soul.
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Tragedy converts sorrow and pity into wisdom, reflection, empathy, and morality, making Greek drama a moral technology.
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Frank’s critique of suffering asks why divine beings experience death but not kingship, making rulership part of wisdom.
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The descent of Nietzsche's Zarathustra repeats the cave model: solitary wisdom is incomplete until it is given to others.
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Wisdom requires repeated self-destruction: doubting what one knows, leaving comfort, and rebuilding knowledge from ashes.
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Near-death experiences and psychedelics are presented as the payoff for the royal family and priests because they give access to the spirit world, God, wisdom, and a feeling of being truly divine.
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"Okay, and so now the... And now this is a resolution, okay? This is the epiphany of Achilles. He recognizes his guilt. And now..."
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"...is an animal. But it goes on infinitely until we've achieved wisdom, okay? So in other words, the point of this story and this..."
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"...only through pain, only through suffering can you access empathy and wisdom, and that's a great truth of the Iliad. But also, this is..."
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"Iliad, any questions? Ask a question, guys, come on. Do you guys understand this? Does it make sense to you? We're gonna ask a..."
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"...about the world that we live in okay and let's create wisdom let's create empathy let's create morality and that's why Greek drama is..."
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"Easter heart and the rabbi montage cheese that if the second belonged to the divine why did he die rabbi is a heart replied..."
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"...beings like Jesus they come to experience the world to learn wisdom and so why did they suffer because suffering is part of wisdom..."
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"you actually read what Nietzsche writes, you will see that it's actually pretty similar to what Zoroastria himself promoted during his time. Of course,..."
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"...and blessed thee for it. Lo, I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey. I need hands..."
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"Okay? So, Zoroastria has hid himself in the cave. And inside the cave, there is nothing. In the cave, in solitude, he has discovered..."
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"...That's just the process of life. And that's the process of wisdom. Okay. To seek wisdom, you always have to constantly destroy yourself. You..."
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"What's really important is to act. Okay. To seek self -destruction. So another way of saying this is always assume that whatever you know,..."
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