“If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
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“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“As W. H. Auden noted, “human beings are by nature actors who cannot become something until they have first pretended to be it.”
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
“With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.”
― Your Faith is Your Fortune
― Your Faith is Your Fortune
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