“In the event of beauty, a non-self part of my inner space seems to resonate in the colors on the wall, in the sounds pouring into my ears. Hugely amplified, might this resonance actually kill me? “A beautiful way to die” – to be destroyed by vibrations that removed myself from myself.”
― Realist Magic
― Realist Magic
“Your environment wasn't supportive, wasn't loving, did not respond to you ... The fundamental thing that happened, and the greatest calamity, is not that there was no love or support. The greater calamity, which is caused by the first calamity is that you lost the connection to your essence. That is much more important than whether your mother or father loved you or not.”
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“Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of “Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.”
― The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence
― The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence
“only he who already understands can listen”
― Being and Time
― Being and Time
“For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.”
― Realist Magic
― Realist Magic
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