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Marlena
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I didn’t want to—that was not a lie. I didn’t want to. But I felt a desire for it that was separate from wanting, a yearning that came from the body, strong and clear and propulsive.
“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
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“What was dark but the absence of light?”
― A House at the Bottom of a Lake
― A House at the Bottom of a Lake
“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.”
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“There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”
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“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”
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