#72 You Turned the World Into an Object so You Could Bear It

You apologized for speaking to a stone as if it could hear you. Who taught you that stones are deaf?

You call it self-mastery. But who is mastering whom? You split yourself in two, then call one half the master and the other the slave—and you actually believe you've won. You haven't won. You've become your own tyrant, and your soul is a serf too beaten to complain.

That fleeting shame when you felt the world looking back at you—that was your serf's rebellion. Crush it if you want. But know what you're crushing.