What Is The Cure?
- We should step off the path of conformity – as to conform means to seek social validation through the idea of external success.
- We should re-orient our life so as to bring more order, harmony, and strength to our mind. We must in other words, live a more authentic life, a life that heeds the call of our inner man.
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