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Ivan Raykov
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“Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.”
― The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
― The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness -- the feeling that someone is trying to think about us -- something we want more than praise?”
― The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
― The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“And the secret of human life, the universal secret, the root secret from which all other secrets spring, is the longing for more life, the furious and insatiable desire to be everything else without ever ceasing to be ourselves, to take possession of the entire universe without letting the universe take possession of us and absorb us; it is the desire to be someone else without ceasing to be myself, and continue being myself at the same time I am someone else...”
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“Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.”
― The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
― The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
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