The Transcendental: The Church Project

'Resilience is not a virtue.'

Life is drama, conflict, struggle. I think this could be a really empowering thought two ways. One is by way of validating experiences and going like: Well, that's life. You get dramatic or you get caught up in drama and conflict. You struggle with things. You just got to roll with the punches and get stranger er stronger as you roll. And two is I think the spiritual highway where somebody looks and goes: Okay, maybe life is drama, conflict, struggle but also, life is drama-free, peace and harmony, and joy. And this is not to say it's a paradox, but being at the crossroads and choosing which way to go with the creation of life, and making the decision to transcend, to go beyond what's being sold as impossible.

When I read this line from Camus - it's about going too far, and I am not sure but I think the reasoning is that that's where you're gonna find the truth - I was like: what's too far? Well, now, I think too far is when you go beyond, when you pierce the veil that separates possibility from impossibility. Transcendence is going too far. It is with transcendence that you get what others gave up on and in this case, it is life that is drama-free, peace and harmony, and joy.

Now, how to put this into the perspective of diseases? Well, I could see people feeling restricted and that resulting in stagnation, burnout/fatigue, and just a general feeling of unwellness that makes people go: Resilience is bad. That's not a virtue.

When does resilience become a virtue and when is it not? Because I found that virtues should be taken in context to know if it's actually a virtue or actually not.

So, you have to go too far. I'm afraid there are no shortcuts to going too far, you got to reach the peak, the limit, the boundary. And well, you get there, soldier, that's resilience. The height of drama, conflict, and struggle. You get there, and well, you actually have three more virtues that might as well constitute resilience and that is patience, persistence, and endurance. When does it stop becoming a virtue? The answer is when it stops giving you fruits for your hard work, your labor. The answer is when getting there, you just kind of go back to the same drama, conflict, and struggle, and so you get a loop and you get caught in a loop. That is how people start hating virtues. Because it's starting to get old to them. They are aware of the loop. But they don't know how to break the cycle.

What actually happens there is a case of a missed opportunity, a case of a missed ride - the opportunity or the ride to go too far. 'Cause getting to the limit or the boundary is being a step close to the beyond, it is not yet too far, beyond is too far. Why do they miss it? Well, it's like reaching a destination and not taking the time to look at 'the journey so far' , not taking the time to look at the map, those twists and turns. That's how people feel like they're hamsters. They climb, they go back down, they climb, they go back down. Then they're like: same old shit. Of course it's gonna be the same old shit. You already went there how many times.

But if we're not supposed to be going down and climbing and going down and climbing, what are we supposed to do? What is to be found in the beyond? It's where you walk. Roads there are not uphill or downhill. There, you walk, you don't run or huff and puff and grunt and go like: Oh, my knee. Oh, my back. It's where people are people, not hamsters.

You find the pattern, you find the loop. But a lot of shaping the world and shaping reality is marketing ideas. And we are all into the buy and sell of ideas. I'd like to think of myself of this buyer who wants something functional and that keeps growing. Obviously, I find myself in the same boat with Brene Brown when it comes to world building or structuring, but we have of course people in other boats, and this is entrepreneurship, but I want you to step out of the concept of competition and look at this from the lens of life creation and I want you to make this personal. I want you to put your desires at the center. Because I think desires tell the vision. And then I'd want you to focus on that vision because that's your sacred plan. That's how you build and create the life you want.

Because people hear 'entrepreneurship' and they think 'competition', well, I think minus the frills, it's just buy and sell and its relationship with world building or structuring. It's like, you know, being a conscious buyer or seller. If you want a world like this, you sell this. If you want that kind of world, you buy that. But people who have competition at the forefront of their way of doing things, it just creates a flurry of chaos. The vision gets lost. People would be like buying and selling ideas that don't support their vision. There would be this disconnect, and then people would be like: This isn't what I wanted. But that's what happens when instead of conscious, you have unconscious buying and selling. You kind of wake up feeling unwell and because you didn't notice that it didn't match - your vision didn't match your buy and sell.

My vision is like I said community wellness. I am not a fan of hustling and climbing because I've seen how that goes down. But I am a fan of getting up and doing what you love, taking things easy. I want well people, not sick people. I want working relationships, not dysfunctional and dramatic and where people are just a bundle of nerves like they're on steroids, where people just can't relax. And so I buy and sell ideas that match the vision. And that is how I get the results I want - and that is my own wellness.

People think that it is impossible to see their vision into fruition. But that's because they have this limiting belief that the only visions that come into fruition is the vision that wins or that is popular. But that's not only false, it's limiting people and cripples them into non-action. You support your vision and see to it that your buying and selling contributes to the world or the life you want, and you get that. It's just like making this cup of coffee or starting your own personal collection or it's like doing your groceries. You can take charge and actually get what you want. But you got to make it conscious. You got to stop getting told what to put in the cart. You first have to connect with your vision. And it's just gonna be logic from there. You want drama-free, you invest in drama-free. There's no such thing as investing in drama-free and getting drama. Just make sure you actually are investing in it. Just trust your vision and build around that.

So, that's another example of transcendence. Going beyond what is sold as impossible. Other people would see that as defiance or being a rebel, but that's just really born out of the concept that when you take charge or when you do something different then you're defying the norms or you're a rebel. But it's not. This is just life creation. This is in no way to offend others' way of life creation, but just that we have different visions. It's just freedom.

But if you're looking for a reasoning behind the phenomenon that is 'defiance', it's just personal visions being realized, it's finding your jam. Anyway, you will find people who 'defy the norms' in gatherings and you'll see that they also enjoy doing things others do, and that's very normal. Because freedom doesn't look like isolation, it's not sadness, it's actually finding your tribe, finding that community that shares your vision. 'Cause people, you know, they're afraid that when they grow into this take charge 'this is the life I want, and so I am investing in it' version of themselves, they're gonna be isolated, and so they have this 'belonging vs isolation' thing going on. But it's fascinating how this works. You don't really get isolated when this happens, you just get aligned with your vision and you just find your tribe. And when it comes to belonging, that's how you belong, that's how you're gonna feel that sense of belonging - when you are free and you're with the free. And the free are just people who have a vision and who build around that. Because you're never gonna go wrong investing in your vision, you're never gonna go wrong investing in the life you want. So you can go: Like Frankie said I did it my way.