"This Is Life, Life Involves Pain" | Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday on 'Amor Fati' 

Much experience, indeed. In this world of limitation and opinion, where absolute Truth is hidden from our senses, the mind is confused and is constantly lying to itself in an effort to find security. But "amor fati" is the proper and consoling attitude that one will naturally adopt when one finds reason enough to believe that one's fate is in fact working towards one's LIBERATION from limitation and opinion.. And this becomes entirely possible once one understands the Meaning of Life; the greatest esoteric secret in this entire Universe, which has finally been revealed. Give me a "click" to learn more......

My boat is named Amor Fati... mom died when I was six, dad passed at fourteen, and I’m still one of the luckiest souls on earth...

Tom Rhodes I gave you a like, can I have some now?😎

Fate has allowed me to have smart and successful children (hopefully they become wise) and to be alive (though my parents had to give of themselves when I [We] should never have existed. Fate has allowed me to use my mind to understand the world. It has harmed me, however I have learned from that pain!

Fate has allowed me to have smart and successful children (hopefully they become wise) and to be alive (though my parents had to give of themselves when I [We] should never have existed. Fate has allowed me to use my mind to understand the world. It has harmed me, however I have learned from that pain!

Amen

Oof

Amor fati

Those painful memories can control you for life. Maybe you parted ways because of old pain and complexes in your brain. Amor Fati absolutely, but you can make the best of everyday if you understand your strengths and weakness, lows and highs. Then Amor Fati. Always check a psychologist after such incidents. Best of luck! 🙏

Life Mastery Gym uh, you never got whooping when you were little? Your parents should have damn well taught you something about your attitude, as well as teachers, mentors and elders. That’s just me tho, I never let my kids get away with a shitty attitude. When they insisted on having one, I made them go enjoy it all by their self, never lasted long...

Katy Wants To Go Yeah you are an amoral piece of shit if you think hitting your kids is going to do anything good.

You hit the nail on the hand, it's practising (and practising some more) this attitude, in the worst of conditions. I'm a big believer in habits.

I love this. Practicing amor fati is a lot harder when youre emotionally distressed compared to when youre not pressed under feelings of anxiety over something

@@tre-moon-dous6122 indeed.

@rupesh 🙏

Existential Weirdo you may be right , good call

Chris Mize me too 👍

In your enlightening Nietzsche video, you can make effective use of the adaptive root system metaphor of a tree as it grows stronger and increases its expanse confronting underground obstacles. Descriptive, vivid, and organic are a perfect use of this metaphor. The quote "...that which does not destroy you makes you stronger.. " always conveys a hard, militaristic tone to Nietzsche which is certainly warranted for this elite Navy Seal esque, Spartan warrior philosopher that fought his way to the top with front line focus and OODA loop strikes against the cream puff "Marxist" collectivism academics to find a home at the Olympian rung next to Plato, Schopenhauer, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Your root metaphor highlights the profound Emersonian influence of natural organic imagery that left a sublime impression on Nietzsche. Thank you for sharing your novel insights on this pioneer German philosopher leading us all away from the modern philosophic T.S. Eliot described wasteland. A wasteland terrain full of vapid, game show host like hollow men mixed in with the John Wick like Assassins in the philosophy departments of the university tenure system where the truth goes to die as hollow men administrators pander to the lowest common denominator in the collective seal-like applause of virtue signaling and Orwellian levels of political correctness that have the universities and corporations fearing their own shadow. Nietzsche offers a way out of this wasteland to the leading edge with the best view of the vast horizons, blissful sunsets, and the pure austere air of the Swiss Alps. Up in the Alps where Nietzsche is found with his groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting writings, you also can experience the invigorating sensation of elite-level Navy Seal alpine mountain fighting. The mountain combat though is against Platonic shadows comprised of noisy self-confused ignorance, suffering, angst and forced fed propaganda faced in the shadows of our own mind that we all encounter on our own unique path and quest, propelled on by the relentless force of the will to power and illuminated by the brilliance of Nietzsche's light and profound truth instincts. As we take the philosophic Navy Seal hard path in our own internal root expansion, we will all find why this German savant philosopher, the heroic but "lonely" wanderer and his shadow, is fulfilling his "prophecy" in his writings reflective of the Rock of Ages prophets, to be as he foretold in these dark matrix times, "...the philosopher for the day after tomorrow."

So lucky to live in a time where Ryan is alive and he is explaining those concepts in a way no one has ever looked at them from that perspective or explained them in such a logical sense. Keep it up Ryan, you're the greatest Stoic of our time 🙏🙏🙏❤

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I'm just thinking of getting Amor Fati on my wrist. I think they are beautiful words and I love it. Truly live by this now.

Pain is painful.

Ask that question to Naruto. Really, try looking it up.