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One does not simply "read" Chekov's To the Actor *insert Boromir meme*. They slowly digest, practice, and embody his exercises and techniques until their "true self" emerges: radiating beauty and light, ease, and totality. If you're an actor (aspirin ...more "
“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
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“Life's sparkling wine for us is dim,
Only the bitter drops remain;
Yet for the brightness on the brim,
Who would not drink the drought of pain?
And not in even ways my friend,
Attains the soul to regions higher;
If step by step our feet ascend,
Their path must be a path of fire!”
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Only the bitter drops remain;
Yet for the brightness on the brim,
Who would not drink the drought of pain?
And not in even ways my friend,
Attains the soul to regions higher;
If step by step our feet ascend,
Their path must be a path of fire!”
―
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