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Loving Your Robot
Self-love is tough love
treat your thinking-mind
or the robot that has
taken charge of your life
as your lover
do not overwork her
stop being an asshole
stop being a passive observer
of your lover working her ass off
for your stubborn laziness
do not prolong her misery
even if she will do it
show some decency
stop doing it
what does it mean
to not let the robot
think up the thoughts
and instead, you be there awake?
what does it mean
to not make the robot
do boredom, do worry,
do whatever it does automatically?
Only when the emotional center supplies the motive power will anything real be achieved, for this emotional involvement makes the difference between the word and the deed, the theory and the action…talking or thinking about the inner work instead of practicing it are deviations which any reasonably sincere student can recognize and struggle to correct. — Robert de Ropp, The Master Game
