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James Hollis
“Our ego consciousness — namely, who we think we are, or what we believe real — is at best a thin wafer floating on an iridescent sea. In any moment, we view the world through a distorting lens and make choices based on what the lens allows us to see, not what lies outside its frame.”
James Hollis, Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey

James Baldwin
“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
James Baldwin

James Hollis
“This is why Jung observed that the greatest burden the child must bear is the unlived life of the parent.”
James Hollis, Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives

“Outwardly, we are all living the same life, but inwardly, I hope everybody has as many private crises as I do.”
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

Ada Limon
“When the plane went down in San Francisco,
I thought of my friend M. He’s obsessed with plane crashes.

He memorizes the wrecked metal details,
the clear cool skies cut by black scars of smoke.

Once, while driving, he told me about all the crashes:
The one in blue Kentucky, in yellow Iowa.

How people go on, and how people don’t.

It was almost a year before I learned
that his brother was a pilot.

I can’t help it,
I love the way men love.”
Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

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