Can we really imagine how it must feel to be so afraid of what lies behind you that you are prepared to throw yourself headlong into an unknown that is going to be filled with danger and loneliness?
“Crossing the river of change requires that you leave the same familiar predictable self—connected to the same thoughts, same choices, same behaviors, and same feelings—and step into a void or the unknown. The gap between the old self and the new self is the biological death of your old personality. If the old self must die, then you have to create a new self with new thoughts, new choices, new behaviors, and new emotions. Entering this river is stepping toward a new unpredictable, unfamiliar self. The unknown is the only place where you can create—you cannot create anything new from the known.”
― You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
― You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
“We like to think we learned lessons from those wars and yet history continues to repeat itself, year after year.”
― The Storyteller of Casablanca
― The Storyteller of Casablanca
“If there is a God, she thought, music must be his language.”
― The Woman on the Orient Express
― The Woman on the Orient Express
“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”
― A Rule Against Murder
― A Rule Against Murder
“You’re lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?”
― A Trick of the Light
― A Trick of the Light
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