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“we are already inherently perfect; we have already arrived; and we have the potential in each moment to wake up to our true nature.”
― Stephen Cope, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

“could i not be simply devoured without being required to praise what has devoured me?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“at one point, out of the blue, i sobbed as if with a lifetime of accumulated burdens. and throughout it all i just painted.”
― Stephen Cope, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

“I'd rather be myself,' he said. 'Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World