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“The problem is not yours—it is your mind’s only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.”
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“You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!”
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“The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“To be engulfed: outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment. At its best, when it’s fulfillment, it’s a kind of disappearance at will. An easeful death. Death liberated from dying.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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