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#1

“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.”
― Jed McKenna

tags: dreams, enlightenment, happiness, suffering

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#2

“The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.”
― Jed McKenna

tags: awaken, up, wake

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#3

“I don’t have something you don’t; you believe something I don’t.”
― Jed McKenna

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#4

“I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.”
― Jed McKenna

tags: dreams, elightenment, rescue

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#5

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

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#6

“There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: bdsm, chemicals, cleaning, fingernails, masochism, pain, safeword, service, submission, suffering

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#7

“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: beauty, death, dying, humanity, impermanence, life, mortality, world

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#8

“May we each find in ourselves the courage we forgot we have, to see the beauty we forgot is inside us, while battling the demons we forgot we can slay, on a battlefield we forgot we can win.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: aids, battle, battlefield, beauty, courage, demons, hiv, life, love, relationships, survival, triumph, war

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#9

“We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: acceptance, aids, choice, consequence, death, decision, difference, diversity, fear, hiv, life, society, stigma, struggle, survival, tolerance

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#10

“There is a certain loveliness, I think, to performing deep cleaning in one’s underwear on a beautiful summer day.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: bdsm, beauty, cleaning, home, love, service

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#11

“All I’m saying is that I want you to be happy. I don’t care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I don’t care if it happens with me or without me. I don’t care if you use me to get there, or if I’m entirely irrelevant to your process. None of me is attached to how your happiness happens; I care only that it does.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: genuine, happiness, happy, joy, love, purity, relationships, selflessness, service

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#12

“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES. HERE HE STANDS, VISIBLE. HE SEES YOU ALL, COUNTLESS INVISIBLE OTHERS LIKE HIM. THIS BODY IS ACCEPTABLE — PUBESCENT, AWKWARD, MARRED. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE INVISIBLE. WE ARE ALL GOOD ENOUGH. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BODIES.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: awkward, blemish, body, body-shame, equality, feminism, happy, human, image, invisible, lgbt, male, male-beauty, man, masculinity, muscle, photoshop, pride, puberty, reality, shame, trans, transgender, visibility

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#13

“I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: bdsm, chores, cleaning, contribution, duty, happiness, home, life, pleasure, service, submission, usefulness, world

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#14

“Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: boundaries, emotions, expectations, human-interaction, psychology, reality, relationships, should

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#15

“If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: boundaries, happiness, honesty, lying, relationships, self-awareness, truth, upheaval

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#16

“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: body, body-modification, body-shame, cosmetics, expectations, judgment, opinion, relationships, shame, societal-expectations, surgery, trans, transgender

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#17

“Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: acceptance, bdsm, control, d-s, death, dominance, fear, letting-go, power, submission

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#18

“What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: complement, contradiction, honesty, humanity, infinite, outside-the-box, reality, vastness

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