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00:00As long as you are confident that you are good as you are, you will never have the intent to
00:04improve.
00:05So this confidence needs to be challenged and demolished.
00:08And sitting in your little cave, you will never challenge your confidence.
00:12You will have to venture out.
00:13The corpse does not suffer at all.
00:15The coma is the best state to be in.
00:17To be alive is to be struggling.
00:19To be alive is to be worried.
00:22If you avoid these things, if you avoid the inner tension, then you are dead.
00:28A happy prisoner.
00:29So happy he is decorating his prison, painting the walls and doing all kinds of creative things.
00:35And also being felicitated by the inmates association.
00:38You must have stress, not the kind that reaches neurotic levels.
00:42There is a healthy kind of stress that you must carry.
00:45Walk off total freedom from stress only when you have total freedom.
00:49You must think, you must wonder, you must contemplate.
00:52You must be pensive at times.
00:54You must be found brooding.
00:55If your illusions give you happiness, do you want to nurture them?
00:59No sir, you must not.
01:01You must rather accept disappointment.
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