Mary Beth
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“Your responsibilities are to your own soul. The life force moves forwards not backwards. What went before is done. To go back there now for you is to die, be it mental or physical, no matter. Forget about the past, your life lies ahead of
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“If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful , or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture.”
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
“uncomfortably conscious that women of her age did not generally hide in cupboards drinking whisky”
― The Incident at Fives Castle
― The Incident at Fives Castle
“are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?”
― Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
― Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
“You say that an emotion is the mind’s reflection in the body. But sometimes there is a conflict between the two: the mind says “no” while the emotion says “yes,” or the other way around. If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. Not the ultimate truth of who you are, but the relative truth of your state of mind at that time. Conflict between surface thoughts and unconscious mental processes is certainly common. You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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