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“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Only in this struggle does the hero show himself a hero and change his nature; for whether he is the doer who redeems or the conqueror who liberates, what he transforms transforms him too.”
― The Origins and History of Conciousness Part 1
― The Origins and History of Conciousness Part 1
“In the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the dead man receives instruction, and the instruction culminates in the doctrine that he shall know himself identical with the great white light that shines beyond life and death:”
― The Origins and History of Consciousness
― The Origins and History of Consciousness
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