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“I have moments of doubt, certainly, but I never lost my faith. So many of the people I knew -particularly the men- where bullshit artist. They over promised and under delivered.”

“In a family where everyone is traumatized, there is a kind of uneasy solidarity in the trauma. The shared silent look of understanding between passengers who survived the same plane crash.”

“everybody is born awake, sharp, and conscious. and then, as you get older, you go back to sleep.“

“i knew that I had my own magic but most people couldn't see it. I have to prove my value.”

“The number one evil that we face is unconsciousness.”

“You study the patterns that keep coming up.
You allow them to show you something different, even if it's the thing you've been running from your whole life. You run into the fire, run through the pain, trusting that the only way out is through.”

“But then there are those seasons when the snow globe is being shaken all around you, and you're standing in place, looking up to try to see where the scattered world is all going to fall. When it finally settles, that's when you find yourself in the house of hidden meanings.”

“We avoid the pain. We put our blinders on and stay focused on what's right ahead, turning away from the thing we need to see in our periphery, because we know accepting it will force us to question everything we hold so tightly.”

“Life comes in seasons. There are the seasons where you are driving through a snowstorm, just trying to keep your eye on the road ahead to stay alive. Your ego stands in the doorway of every good idea, keeping them from you.”