“Then how do they pay you for the pleasure of your company?” I ask. “With secrets”
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
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And if you ask. ‘How is Nibbāṇa to be known?’ It is by freedom from distress and danger, by confidence, by peace, by calm, by bliss, by happiness, by delicacy, by purity, by freshness…
Ananda Maitriya (Allan Bennett), Nibbāṇa
I didn’t ask to be born into this world. No one does, I suppose, not the bright, shining people nor those who lurk in the shadow.
Bill Kieffer, The Goat: Building the Perfect Victim
Don’t worry. You don’t have to do anything — we’ll ask the Internet for a bunch of cash.
Sean Bonner and Allen Morgenstern, The New Oklahoma
As a practical application of this principle, I suggest you seek out several people that inspire you in this way. Ask them about their path: How did they get where they are? What called to them or inspired them? What do they consider their best choices and their worst failures?
David Shoemaker, Living Thelema: A Practical Guide to Attainment in Aleister Crowley’s System of Magick
