Most of our thoughts & beliefs are attempts of the Mind to realize itself and bring about religions, philosophies, sciences, cosmologies, collective- ego- and innumerable other constructs, and thus plenty of confusions concerning its true nature.
Funny how things workā¦ 
And yet ā Iām beginning to understand Socrates in a very different way.
His famous line, āI know that I know nothing,ā 
ā¦makes a lot more sense when you realize this:
When someone has no compass of understanding,
they end up copy-pasting quotes from some ārespectedā idiots ā and then start believing them. 
Belief is just a herd instinct ā mental livestock behavior.
Itās belief that turns any knowledge into dogma and mindless obedience.
Because itās either belief ā or itās reason.
You canāt build reason on the foundation of faith. 
Theyāre fundamentally incompatible.
So start simple:
Donāt believe any authority.
Use your own reason.
Reason: a mind divided by doubt, capable of holding contradictions.
Mind: a tool for processing information.
If you donāt get thisā¦ well, keep believing in someone elseās nonsense ā
and wonder why the world keeps looking like a madhouse. 
Begin by anchoring your concepts, using words/symbols, to perceptible, independently verifiable, actions.
Serious researchers of all ages consider ignorance of the true nature and capabilities of the mind the major problem of mankind
I bet if we knew all of our capabilities, it would just multiply our problems, unless we made all of our capabilities pivot self=other.
The reflection/projection capability of the mind is the cause of many of its troubles, and their solution as well, as it can bring about a state of mind that supersedes subjective/ objective, internal/external and many more of the dualities that confuse the mind
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Why suffer if you donāt have to, or if itās avoidable..
Masochism? Itās so passĆ©.. so best to move pass it.
suffer = undergo, experience (Merriam-Webster)
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The word āsufferā to me always comes with negative connotations.. itās not an endearing word to me, but hey.. 
All our perceptions, those to which we give names and assign form, colour, or no matter what attributes, are nothing but interpretations of a fugitive contact by one of our senses with a stimulus.
The phenomenal, tangible world is movement, not a collection of moving objects, but movement itself. There are no objects āin movementsā, it is the movement which constitutes the objects that appear to us : they are nothing but movement. This movement is a continued and infinitely rapid succession of flashes of energy.