“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”
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“Birth is not the beginning of life - only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death - only the ending of this awareness.”
― Corpus Hermeticum
― Corpus Hermeticum
“Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
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The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
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“Emotion is inseparable from the body in which it is felt, and emotion is also the basis for our engagement with the world.”
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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