Double-edged Swords

  • happiness begets boredom/complacency
  • passion can lead to errors in judgement
  • disinterestedness lacks the eagerness required to uncover difficult truths
  • spiritual growth can lead to the vices of excessive pride, righteousness and hubris

For every benefit there is a liability.

  • sorrow makes us work hard for improvement
  • passion comes with a drive to uncover difficult truths
  • disinterestedness evaluates evidence on merits of pure reason
  • excessive pride, righteousness and hubris can lead to downfall which creates deep insight and compassion

For every liability there is a benefit.
Negatives contain positives, assets double as liabilities. Shit feeds growth that produces shit.

By Dan Pouliot

A New Hampshire native, Dan received his BFA in Oil Painting from UNH; his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. Dan’s been a positive psychology student/practitioner, a blogger, an amateur Remote Viewer, and now a novelist. His dual passions for anomalous cognition and positive thinking set the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.