Wow, Lubna, this is amazing. I'm not sure if it's just me but your last 10 videos have been hitting it out of the park. This echoes so much of "Self-Reliance". Like my experience with that essay, I am challenged by several different parts that clash with how I was raised. Most of it rings immediately true. "The choice of my will is the only edict I must respect." What an amazing, life affirming line . It is self-affirmation without any apology. I have heard Ayn Rand mentioned a lot with reverence, but I have never read anything she wrote. Anthem sounds like a good place for me to start. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll be thinking about this all day. 🫶
Jeremy, thank you for watching my video. I am very happy to hear that it had such an effect on you. Anthem is a good introduction to Ayn Rand’s philosophical system of objectivism. Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella exploring the concept of the elimination of individuality. Rand’s other notable works include Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. You are right in that it echoes very much of “Self-Reliance.” Like Ayn Rand wrote in the chapter that I shared, our lives should be (and are) ends in and of themselves, and not means to others’ ends. In “Self-Reliance,” Emerson writes, “My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle.” Both promote non-conformity and self-respect. I, too, promote these things. Again, I wanted to thank you for the close attention that you pay to what I share. This accounts, to a large extent, for why my last 10 videos have been “hitting it out of the park,” as you have written. It is amazing what we can do when somebody believes in us and shows it. 💐✨
Here are a few quotes by Ayn Rand that I wanted to add here as a follow-up to the previous comments. 🌺🌷🌸 “The question is not who is going to let me; it is who is going to stop me.” “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” “We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.” “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” “There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.” “Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
this gave me goosebumps, have a magnificent 12 12 24 angel day 🙏❤
Thank you. You as well. Sending love and light to you on this beautiful day, 12/12/24. 🌸💖
I and I !! I will mull your words over and get back to you on this one! As always keep going WE GOT THIS!!! ;
We got this, Bradley. “I and I.” I appreciate your comments, as always. Thank you for being you. God bless. 🕊️✨
Wow, Lubna, this is amazing. I'm not sure if it's just me but your last 10 videos have been hitting it out of the park.
This echoes so much of "Self-Reliance". Like my experience with that essay, I am challenged by several different parts that clash with how I was raised. Most of it rings immediately true. "The choice of my will is the only edict I must respect." What an amazing, life affirming line . It is self-affirmation without any apology.
I have heard Ayn Rand mentioned a lot with reverence, but I have never read anything she wrote. Anthem sounds like a good place for me to start. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll be thinking about this all day. 🫶
Jeremy, thank you for watching my video. I am very happy to hear that it had such an effect on you. Anthem is a good introduction to Ayn Rand’s philosophical system of objectivism. Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella exploring the concept of the elimination of individuality. Rand’s other notable works include Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
You are right in that it echoes very much of “Self-Reliance.” Like Ayn Rand wrote in the chapter that I shared, our lives should be (and are) ends in and of themselves, and not means to others’ ends. In “Self-Reliance,” Emerson writes, “My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle.” Both promote non-conformity and self-respect. I, too, promote these things.
Again, I wanted to thank you for the close attention that you pay to what I share. This accounts, to a large extent, for why my last 10 videos have been “hitting it out of the park,” as you have written. It is amazing what we can do when somebody believes in us and shows it. 💐✨
Here are a few quotes by Ayn Rand that I wanted to add here as a follow-up to the previous comments. 🌺🌷🌸
“The question is not who is going to let me; it is who is going to stop me.”
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.”
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
@@LubnaKabirThanks for these quotes