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We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
“It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Our true self remains deeply hidden, incognito, submerged beneath a web of mistaken identities.”
― Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
― Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just … come out the other side.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clearsightedness.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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