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“the conscious self doesn’t create thoughts; it receives them.”
― Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
― Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“Somewhere here I want to bring in a learning which has been most rewarding, because it makes me feel so deeply akin to others. I can word it this way. What is most personal is most general. There have been times when in talking with students or staff, or in my writing, I have expressed myself in ways so personal that I have felt I was expressing an attitude which it was probable no one else could understand, because it was so uniquely my own…. In these instances I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people. It has led me to believe that what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others. This has helped me to understand artists and poets as people who have dared to express the unique in themselves.”
― On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
― On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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