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“As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The world disintegrated. Reality collapsed, or my perception of it. It ripped apart like a dry skin under pressure, giving way to something I can only describe as ineffable dimensions, depths upon depths.”
― Stefan Emunds, The Priest Whisperer

tags: contemporary-christianity, contemporary-religion, enlightenment, gnosis, great-work, illumination, mysticism, path-of-enlightenment, prophecy, revelation, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

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“It's not the cruel criticism from folks who hate us that scares us away from our Knowing; it's the quiet concern of those who love us.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

tags: autonomy, criticism

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“Even if each of our realities is unique, our common cultures and environments ensure that we share some fundamental principles. That is what enables consensus, and that is what is under attack. By degrading the very notion of shared reality, Trump has disabled the engine of democracy. As”
― Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time

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“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

tags: become, elena, elena-ferrante, ferrante, lila

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“Citizens may recoil from paying for the news, he noted, because they see it as a natural right. But in the absence of consumer coin, the media must be fueled by advertisers seeking consumers and investors pursuing profit. Novelty and drama pay to keep the presses rolling, and so the “news” that supposedly informs reason becomes the dog wagged by its own tail.”
― Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time

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