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“We are only seeking that which we already are.”
― The Awakening Guide: A Companion for the Inward Journey
― The Awakening Guide: A Companion for the Inward Journey
“Novelists, whether consciously or unconsciously, are always on the lookout for people that can serve as models for their novels. That is, we eagerly await the serendipity of someone like Meursault or Holly Golightly appearing out of the blue one day. For a person to be appropriate to serve as such a model, he or she needs to be highly out of the ordinary while possessing something that might be seen as a kind of template for humanity or for the age and must be purified via fiction until they reach the dimension of the symbol.”
― A Man
― A Man
“Your work speaks to me, Beatrice – it speaks of the emptiness of the human condition. That life is without value, meaning, or intrinsic value.”
― Strange Flesh
― Strange Flesh
“The greatest need and most pressing problem for every individual is to have an integrated comprehension of life”
― What Are You Doing With Your Life?
― What Are You Doing With Your Life?
“The question of morality, of right and wrong, is a social construct. I don’t think that life has intrinsic meaning, I think it is intrinsically meaningless. The entire human species is without purpose. Every soul is born into the Universe, not knowing why, and some of those souls are compelled to invent meaning. The natural state of the Universe is chaos, and God is benign.”
― Strange Flesh
― Strange Flesh
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