“What I cannot accept in myself, what I cannot handle in the complexity of the world, what I fear in you, often leads me to repress you if I can.”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“In your relationships you sacrificed your autonomy to gain security and wound up with neither.”)”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“Life hurts, and sometimes it hurts a great deal. We are extraordinarily flexible, possess genetic programming to survive, even prevail, and we gain resilience as we age, and yet we still hurt easily.”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“We have an entire culture of addictive treatment plans, of sensate distraction, and of jejune impatience that is driven by the preference of security through unconsciousness as an antidote to growth.”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“Something within each of us is stirred by forms, images, values, to which others may prove indifferent or incredulous. If such images and forms speak to us, occasion resonance , then they express in outer form some analogue to what lies within.”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
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