Before the Name Quotes

“Freedom is not the opposite of pattern. Freedom begins where you recognize that a pattern is running. Without that recognition, every decision is only the elegant repetition of the past.”
― Slava Maajoul, Before the Name: Eleven Meditations on Identity, Consciousness, and the Freedom Beyond Meaning

“The self doesn’t begin as a center. It begins as a solution.”
― Slava Maajoul, Before the Name: Eleven Meditations on Identity, Consciousness, and the Freedom Beyond Meaning