Joe Polish asks if someone can lose their mind or pass a point of no return. The response frames it as a balance between darkness and light, emphasizing self-awareness, stillness, and returning to gratitude when pushed to extremes.
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Well, let's. Okay, so, so crazy but when does one like literally lose their mind and you're past the point of no return?
Great question. So this is coming back to the duality and this is why a lot of people in my playground go push so far off the edge they die doing what they do. Right. This is why I'm always looking for the duality. If I'm going too far into the darkness, it's time to play a little bit in the light, you know, and you play on that. So that time when I was in Liberia doing like I didn't talk to myself the whole time that way, I was also saying things like this is beautiful. Embracing gratitude, you falling in love with the lighter side of it. So I'm always looking for am I going too far on that edge that I'm losing myself to this that I'm. And that requires that constant practice of self awareness or stillness.