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1. It will all come to pass. The biggest worries, the deepest fears and the overwhelming sense of hopelessness are all but transient. Life has a natural way of unfolding itself, of solving its own problems. No matter what happens, the Sun will rise and the Sun will set, and tomorrow will always be a brand new day.
2. You feel life has been unfair to you? Look around you. Those people you read about living to die of starvation and disease are not characters in a poorly-acted play. They are real people.
3. The life of news is negligibly short. The newest war and latest earthquake are completely inconsequential – they will not even register as minor blips on the timeline. Mankind has existed for millennia before us and will exist for millennia after.
4. Man is an animal. He may be a civilized animal, but he is still an animal nonetheless. His senses of fundamental perception are sharper than his sense of thought. Instinct triumphs reason. Follow your intuition – it is more correct than you think.
5. The limits of human knowledge are restrictively narrow. The capabilities of human perception are inherently limited – there are phenomena we can not even begin to perceive. Can knowledge explain why you were born where you were born?
6. Man will tend to agglomerate under common identities. Alienation between identities is inevitable. Race and ethnicity are the most fundamental denominators of civilizational identity.
7. Culture, religion and language are the foundational cornerstones of civilization. Without them no civilization can exist. To supplant them is to eliminate the civilization they sustain. They define who you are – they are part of your identity. Embrace them, nurture them, enrich them.
8. War is inevitable, war is a necessity. It is a natural consequence of civilization. It defines the evolution of civilization. It enriches mankind in its own ways. It has always existed and it always will. It will not now disappear simply because we find it inconvenient.
9. We were all born to serve the same purpose: to sustain, nurture and enrich civilization, to make the world a better place for our progeny so that they may do the same for theirs. We only differ in how we perceive this purpose, and how we set about reaching it.
10. Death is inevitable. And with death dies fame, fortune, power and comfort. The only thing that lives on after you die is your consequence: what you did or did not do for society when alive. It is your consequence that will determine if you finish as just another anonymous also-lived, or as an Adolf Hitler or as a Winston Churchill.
11. History will repeat itself. Every entity, every phenomenon has a track record that reveals its natural state; that entity or phenomenon will tend to follow its natural state. At an individual level, and at a collective level, what has happened in the past is likely to happen in the future. From the past, you can predict the future.
12. What goes around will come around. The consequence you cause unto others will be caused unto you, sooner or later. This is Karma.
13. The ultimate judge of a person is the principles he stands for. It is these principles that determine his conduct, his character and his inner thought process. There are only three fundamental human principles: liberty, equality and justice.
14. There is no one in the world who cares as much about you as your mother. She will always be there for you, no matter what the cause, no matter what the consequence. To her, you are supreme. You are linked to her not by bonds of purpose, but by bonds of instinct. She is the reason you exist. The debt of gratitude you owe her can never be repaid.
15. Truth is like an onion. For every layer you peel, there is another underneath. It is impossible for the human mind to attain absolute truth. What we perceive of as the truth is just that – a perception. There is no one who has seen absolute truth. The most authoritative pronouncement of the most knowledgeable person is still only his perception of the truth. It needs to be subject to individual scrutiny and independent judgement. And that includes this.