Arthur Brooks

Because indeed, that is the source of my strength.

yeah most of the things that you're most ashamed of are just the dark side of something light that you're really proud of yeah and you know if you've got a sword most swords are double-edged and sometimes it nicks you on the backswing yeah that doesn't mean that you throw the sword away yeah just means that you learn how to hold it properly yeah and then the ace move is being grateful for the wound for the wound itself it's really interesting because actually what you find in a lot of eastern philosophy is that you know we have a tendency to be very stoic about the way we talk about problems and suffering and weakness in our life to say i will bear up under it

I will, I do accept it.

I do accept it, but it's not enough to accept it.

You need to love it.

That's really, that ultimately is what makes you fully human, is to actually love it and to accept it as the divine will.

This is the way it's going to be.

And because it's happening, that's what I want.

My will, I want, what I want is what is happening, sort of axiomatically.

I realize it's sort of philosophical in its way, but ultimately I think this is where we need to get in our lives.

is recognizing that there are both strengths and weaknesses that we actually have.

And we should be as grateful for our weaknesses as we are for our strengths.

It's woven throughout it all.

What you're doing is right now you're being very subversive because what you're doing is subverting the culture of grievance, which actually you're pretty good at that at this point.

I've noticed that.

Yeah.

They didn't like it.

Well, the whole point is that, you know, the unhappiest people are people whose identity revolves around grievance and victimization.

And this is, by the way, one of the ways that people in positions of relative cultural authority and power keep you subjugated.

The way that I, a baby boomer like me, technically in the last year of the baby boom, can conscript culture warriors who are Gen Z into my movement is by convincing their victims that they should be aggrieved about how the world treats them, about how older people treat them, about how the culture treats them.