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[–]projectself8 points9 points10 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
I still go back and re-read sections from this book from time to time. Here is a great quote I snagged off the internet.
“Austerity means to eliminate the comforts and cushions in your life that you have learned to snuggle into and lose wakefulness. Take away anything that dulls your edge. No newspapers or magazines. No TV. No candy, cookies, or sweets. No sex. No cuddling. No reading of anything at all while you eat or sit on the toilet. Reduce working time to a necessary minimum. No movies. No conversation that isn't about truth, love, or the divine.
If you take on these disciplines for a few weeks, as well as any other disciplines that may particularly cut through your unique habits of dullness, then your life will be stripped of routine distraction. All that will be left is the edge you have been avoiding by means of your daily routine. You will have to face the basic discomfort and dissatisfaction that is the hidden texture of your life. You will be alive with the challenge of living your truth, rather than hiding form it.
Unadorned suffering is the bedmate of masculine growth. Only by staying intimate with your personal suffering can you feel through it to its source. By putting all your attention into work, TV, sex, and reading, your suffering remains unpenetrated, and the source remains hidden. Your life becomes structured entirely by your favorite means of sidestepping the suffering you rarely allow yourself to feel. And when you do touch the surface of your suffering, perhaps in the form of boredom, you quickly pick up a magazine or the remote control.
Instead, feel your suffering, rest with it, embrace it, make love with it. Feel your suffering so deeply and thoroughly that you penetrate it, and realize its fearful foundation. Almost everything you do, you do because you are afraid to die. And yet dying is exactly what you are doing, from the moment you are born. Two hours of absorption in a good Super Bowl telecast may distract you temporarily, but the fact remains. You were born as a sacrifice. And you can either participate in the sacrifice, dissolving in the giving of your gift, or you can resist it, which is your suffering.
By eliminating the safety net of comforts in your life, you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openness which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.”
[–]nerv9[S] 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
To me, the take-home message was to learn to live with hypergamy and appreciate hypergamy. Adjusting expectations of our women and expectations of ourselves as men as the leaders and lovers of the women in our lives.
[–]zezozio0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Powerful words indeed.
It helped me very much to get out of the anger I was starting to develop.
Helped me also understand what is going on with the hamstering, hypergamy, shit tests and lack of logical thinking.
Awesome book!
[–]SpinalArt1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Great book. I took from it the importance of frame control and to stand our ground no matter what. This is a must read personally.
[–]emptyform1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
This was the first book I read in my post-blue pill days, back before I knew what BP/RP were, just that my beta ass had gotten dumped and I hadn't a clue why. I think it's a great "soft" intro to RP concepts, and I still revisit it because he really nails the metaphysical (if at times a little over-the-top New Agey) concepts.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Probably the best book I've read. Really allowed me to embrace my masculinity.
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