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If you want to truly know anything, you are obliged to run the gauntlet and you must be prepared to come out the other end only to discover that Truth is not sitting pretty at the finish line as you presumed, she’s up and moved again, and there’s a whole new cast of challenges lined up as punishment for your slowness or perhaps, if you’re unlucky, for your cleverness, your overconfidence.”
obvious because it is, and holding back is boring, and I will not be accompanied by someone who bores me.
“You keep trying to outline exactly what you’ll find and exactly how it will change you, and in the process you cut out any possibility of surprise, of the glorious unknown.”
“You strain yourself trying to understand something before it is ready to reveal itself to you. Truth barely has time to set up her gauntlet before you are sprinting towards her prize. A piece of advice to you, Ronoah: wait it out. Enjoy the run. As I have already said, it is the unexpected things which impact us the most, and really, you do not want to know everything nearly as badly as you think you do.”
The past of others is always influencing our present, our children’s future. We are moulded by the mistakes of those we will never know.”
“A lie uses true details to encircle an untrue essence,” he said, chin in hand. “Stories take fictional details to depict an essential truth.”
if you want to change, do not expect other people to do the work for you. Change is reciprocal. Change is symbiotic. And change is work.
