Aristokrateia

Putting yourself in situations of true life danger serves as a crucial tool of meditative recollection. Finding yourself in a situation where one false move would result in your death puts you in a state of spontaneously arisen sobriety. It makes you remember that the mind can be completely cleared of redundant thoughts. This, in turn, strikes you with the obviousness of the power of laser-like focus. “Rehearse your death every morning and night. Only when you constantly live as though already a corpse (jōjū shinimi) will you be able to find freedom in the martial Way, and fulfill your duties without fault throughout your life.” ― Yamamoto Tsunetomo

"The truly courageous do not live in anxiety from morning to night. They are calm because they know who they are." — MCWP 6-11

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. This is the fate of man in general, and the more he is capable of higher aims, the more he suffers from the two extremes. - Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1818/1844)

Remember, when it's your turn to swing the hammer, do it as violently and precise as possible. Because no one gave a fuck when you were the nail.

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate. What a person refuses to confront within himself eventually appears in the outer world through conflict, suffering, and repetition. - Carl Jung, Collected Works (20th century)