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Bernadette Roberts

"But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self"."

Source : Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.23, SUNY Press

Bernadette Roberts

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“I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am.”
“I had an epiphany: I was a loser.”
“One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize it's just gone.”

Source : "Mad Men: Meditations in an Emergency". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2008.
“What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.”
“So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears”

Source : Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.654, Delphi Classics
“I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.”
“If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.”
“It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because they're working. The activism privileges people who hated doing sex work, are no longer doing it, and have a job at a social service organization, for example, that trains them on how to speak to the media. We are hearing from those people quite a bit.”

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