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"...In his play The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot writes:

What we know of other people
Is only our memory of the moments
During which we knew them. And they have
Changed since then …

We must
Also remember
That at every meeting we are meeting a
Stranger."

"The Latin root of the word desire, “desidus,” means “away from a star.” The way I like to interpret this is that stars are the energetic source of all life and an expression of pure awareness. This aliveness and wakefulness is what we long for most deeply—we long to belong to our star, to realize our own true nature."

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself

just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers