Before coming to know the true self, one must confront the false self that one has usually spent a lifetime constructing and nourishing.
This is so hard, because it feels like a lot of the work we put into becoming this false self will have been for nothing. It’s hard to throw hard work into the trash. But it isn’t what we’re doing, really, when we come into our own. Salk that work still was important to the journey of discovering our true self. We can let go of it, and the life we built, knowing we can use those skills to build a truer one now.
“Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.”
― Dune
― Dune
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Whit’s 2025 Year in Books
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