“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
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“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”
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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
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“Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
Deborah’s 2024 Year in Books
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