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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.”
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
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