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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?
My illness belongs to the domain of my body, but it is not me. I am my illness and my body, but they are not me. Both must be overcome, if not physically, then metaphysically.
“Become who you are!”
‘Whatever does not kill me, makes me stronger.’
one does choose stress—and it is stress that chooses the disease!”
All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.”
have known many who dislike themselves and try to rectify this by first persuading others to think well of them. Once that is done, then they begin to think well of themselves. But this is a false solution, this is submission to the authority of others. Your task is to accept yourself—not to find ways to gain my acceptance.”
he who does not obey himself is ruled by others. It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself.”
“Living safely is dangerous.”
“I dream of a love in which two people share a passion to search together for some higher truth. Perhaps I should not call it love. Perhaps it’s real name is friendship.”
Have you lived your life? Or been lived by it? Chosen it? Or did it choose you? Loved it? Or regretted it? That is what I mean when I ask whether you have consummated your life. Have you used it up?
Today I understood that the best teacher is one who learns from his student.
Now is my chance to build a new self on the ashes of my old life!
“Amor fati—love your fate.
“Isolation exists only in isolation. Once shared, it evaporates.”
“Don’t underestimate what you have given me, Josef. Don’t underestimate the value of friendship,
“History is fiction that did happen. Whereas fiction is history that might have happened.”
