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…g. It tells us to copy the person we admire. Try to be like that person. Which is fine up to a point. There’s nothing wrong with emulating positive traits in others. But we can never be someone else. Nor should we want to be a cheap imitation.
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Asceticism is about learning how to desire on our terms, by rejecting the cycle of need and satiation, the binge-and-purge of want; it’s a process, like all principles, whereby we become the master of our emotional worlds, rather than slaves to them.