“Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.”
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“Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate”
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“Everybody should come here. Everyone should see how complicated, how deeply troubled, and yet at the same time, beautiful and awesome the world can be. Everyone should experience, even as the clouds gather, what's at stake, what could be lost, what's still here.”
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“There was probably a range of people she had never experienced in this world and for which she had no preparation,”
― Prague
― Prague
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