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“Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.”
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“Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or disallows its own experience.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.”
― Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
― Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
“But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
“Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.”
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Kumud’s 2025 Year in Books
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