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Oli Anderson
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Hollywood Endings: Your Life Is NOT a Movie
Your Hollywood Ending Fairytale Isn’t Coming (…and That’s A Good Thing). Many of us grow up with a subtle expectation that life will eventually give us the kind of closure, clarity, and emotional resolution we see in the movies: We assume that at some undefined point in adulthood, everything will magically ‘click’ into place after some big epiphany or something and so our relationships will settle
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“When we let go and trust life to work through us then we almost always get where we need to go.”
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“Our unreal desires don’t really ‘belong’ anywhere because they’re just the imaginary conditions of the Ego and the Ego is always unreal.”
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“Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.”
― Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
― Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Your Shadow is all of the things, 'positive' and 'negative', that you’ve denied about yourself and hidden beneath the surface of the mask you forgot that you’re wearing.”
― Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
― Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“If you don’t accept yourself, you can’t transcend yourself and the world: first, you need to increase your awareness, then you need to accept what you learn, then you need to take action.”
― Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
― Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.”
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“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― Invictus
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― Invictus
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