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There is no way to become unbreakable without breaking yourself first. Our minds simply do not work in any other way.

Wisdom is never the sole means to achieving peace. Gleaning knowledge from a dense book, listening to a lengthy lecture in great detail, receiving advice from a dear friend—it can guide you along, but only if you put yourself in a situation where you actually need guidance. Otherwise, they are nothing but tenuous notions suspended in the void, untethered to our pain, disconnected from our toil, and devoid of any true, internalized meaning.