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The Entheos Project
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Both Are True

Twenty-six truths that sound like contradictions, each traced to its source and explained plainly, with a question to sit with.

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Try harder. Pray harder. Comply. For most people, most of the time, that works. For some, it is the advice that buries them. The paradoxes in this guide are the other half of the truth, set back beside the first. They do not ask you to believe anything. Read them, test them against your own life, and judge for yourself.

Seven families

  • 1When Trying Makes It Worse
  • 2Strength Made Perfect in Weakness
  • 3Keep the Walls, Build the Doors
  • 4Who You Really Are
  • 5The God Who Reaches In
  • 6Sudden and Slow
  • 7The Work Outlives the Worker

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