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“Happiness is not possible without hope; hope is not possible without discipline; discipline demands consistent action; consistency depends on order; order only exists when motivated by faith; an overwhelming faith depends on belief; and, belief can only come from love. In other words, only you can make yourself happy. If you are willing to stand still when your mind is restless, you can begin this journey towards the ultimate understanding of what makes life what it is.”

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Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

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“Hate not the one who has ridiculed you or insulted you, on purpose or by default, for he is a victim of stupidity, blind by his own actions. Such an individual suffers from ignorance in ways that the mockery blinds you to see. But doubt not, that all ignorance manifested in the form of insults and segregation, is paid by the one who charges through you his own karmic token.”

“I saw a little child throwing pillows on the floor and screaming, and soon later picking up those same pillows to listen to a story her mother was reading in a coffee shop. However, after a few minutes, the child started crying again, this time, not throwing any pillows on the floor, but simply demanding to go somewhere else, leading her mother to promptly obey. And that's when I realized, there was nothing wrong with that child, but with the culture. For the adults of this country behave in the same way. They complain when they can't get what they want, and once they do, they manipulate others to get more. It is not a cultural trait as much as it is not an educational issue. It's, pretty much, a problem of mass imbecility. You cannot expect an adult, that never grew up, to educate a child or provide her with a culture in which she can, herself, mature. And that's why in certain countries, there is the illusion that you are dealing with adults and children, when in fact you are only dealing with children. When these children become fed up of crying and demanding, and throwing pillows on the floor, they commit suicide, simply because they are fed up of being irresponsible and unaccountable for their actions. They don't need psychologists, but violence. And the violence they get, in many forms, from neighboring nations wanting to destroy them; for nobody wants to deal with adults behaving like immature children. The infantilization of a nation is only one of the traits contributing to its downfall, but probably one of the most important.”

“I thought I could make a narcissist repent, accept responsibility and understand the implications of her behavior, and that's how I wasted years of my life driving myself insane with endless explanations that were disregarded as much as any emotions behind them, because, for the narcissist, without empathy but driven by hate, everything that hurts the ego is an insult. And that's when I realized the narcissist was simply gaslighting me into oblivion.”

“I only need to look at the heart and soul of a human being to know the nature of such individual; I don’t really care about what goes on in the mind, as the mind is usually confused and lost, and without the heart will never find itself. The heart can only find peace when the soul is manifesting itself through it. And the soul has all the keys to the nature of the individual, far much more than what the individual can see when using the mind. And that is why, to the dismay of many, I seem to know them better than they know themselves. I do know them better, because I know their soul, while they only know their mind.”

“I believe that what the vast majority of the masses call life is just fiction. A therapist's work ends up being trying to bring them into nonfiction. Although I feel that many are just replacing a novel by another. Too many people tell me: 'Why do you talk like you know the truth? There is no truth'. It is as if they felt that I'm destroying their inner world by being direct. They feel the need to project a defense mechanism to protect it. Another common phrase is: 'You don't know me better than I know myself'. This one is also interesting. Because it is as if the person was saying: 'You don't know my novel better than I do because I am the author of it.’ Life pretty much follows the same principles — gravity, air, water, fire, weight, hight; all of which is represented in maths, physics, and other sciences. But most people these days consider a personal attack when you make them observe something that may touch their inner world. It's the oversensitivity paradox in which we live today, for people want to feel more alive but are afraid to live at the same time. Allegorically speaking, they need to float like a bubble of steel. And many times they are perfectly fine in discussing others' issues until those issues are projected at them for self-analysis. Quite often, we are not really talking to a human being, but to his alter-ego. There's not much difference between the real self and the alternate version of that self for such person. And how ironic when both the therapist and the patient play the same game from different perspectives. This is why people don't want the truth anymore, but an alternate version of reality where they can merge themselves as if they were merely a chemical solution melting with another. They are too afraid of the truth because they have often been hurt when trying to find it. However, the concept of truth merges with the personality of the individual. And that is why having a personality is now an outdated concept, often falling into the realm of the abstract — Everything is relative, everything is fine, and everyone is everything you can decide for yourself. So why live if life has no meaning? Well, life does have a meaning, but won't be found by running away from it.”

“Humanity seems to be losing the basic elements that make humans human, i.e., empathy, compassion, moral, sense of logic, etc. In this way, anyone who has developed such attributes by moral conduct, religious practice and meditation, has become, by default, superior to the masses. These individuals have also been upgraded by differentiating themselves, for the spiritual world always chooses those who can more easily convey an abstract message transmitted in vibration through the heart.”

“Humanity has always been controlled by two sides and never did its accomplishments been ignored but overseen and manipulated by those in power. The truth, however, is never accepted by the ones who keep on paying the price for the untruths they embrace. In doing so, they keep the most important truths hidden from themselves, for their level of consciousness cannot go beyond their ego — the belief that they have not been massively fooled.”