"To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all."

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Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “The Trauma of Everyday Life”, p.19, Penguin

Mark Epstein

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“We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.”
“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”
“Once one crosses a conceptual threshold of rethinking what nature might or might not be, it can multiply outward radically. The world becomes a more interesting place to be, and one is perhaps somewhat less judgmental.”
“I am a believer and a conformist.”

Source : "La Renaissance" by Georges Rouault, XX, no. 10-12, 1937.
“I’ve always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.”

Source : "Annaleigh Ashford Takes ‘Lost In The Stars,’ Her Glitzy Solo Cabaret, On The Road". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2015.
“When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.”
“If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.”

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