That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do.
That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it.
That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.
That logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
That it is possible to learn valuable things from a stupid person.
That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee, it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee.
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt.
That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
That it is simply more pleasant to be happy than to be pissed off.
That the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.
That it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
That other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid.
That the cliché ‘I don’t know who I am’ unfortunately turns out to be more than a cliché.
That having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.
That ‘acceptance’ is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
That, perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.
That it is permissible to want.
That everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.