“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
– Indira Gandhi
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Truth will liberate you – Simba Dara
“Truth will liberate you.
Before it does,
how about a game of hide and seek, a game of being right, of softly pampering the ego one brushstroke at a time.
Stories so very convincing.
The made up sense of self with resistance as it’s best General by it’s side will risk everything and absolutely everything to avoid feeling vulnerable.
Truth my dear is right there like the most precious red gemstone. Not hiding, not moving. Unwavering at the face of the best excuse anyone has ever found.
Now the ground is already shaking.
There is no turning back.
Once you see you cannot unsee.
And something already changed.
At this point you haven’t given full consent. The vortex will take you in nevertheless, wash you with the purest of waters, unburden you.
Yet you may try to put those old weights back on.
Truth will bring you to your knees and likely at this point you will try to convince yourself you’re still standing.
Screaming as light penetrates the darkest corners of your being, your demons will spill out of you into the bloodstreams of the earth.
When truth is done with you:
skinless, boundless, armourless, stripped,
it won’t matter who you’ve been, what you’ve done, where you’ve been or how much you resisted
how many times you forgot and how many times your remembered.
In this process,
suffering remains optional.”
– Simba Dara
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Fix – Unknown
“You can’t fix what you can’t see.”
– Unknown
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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Pain – Kahlil Gibran
“And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain.
And he said:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”
– Kahlil Gibran
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A step backward – Kurt Vonnegut
“A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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We write – Maya Angelou
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Not just how tall we are, or thin… but who we are internally… perhaps even spiritually. There’s something, which impels us to show our inner-souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.”
— Maya Angelou
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It’s only those – General Sherman
“It is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated […] that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
– General Sherman
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Want – Unknown
“I can do anything you want, but I can’t do everything you want.”
– Unknown
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Be humble – Serbian proverb
“Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.”
– Serbian proverb
“If it’s popular and most people agree with it, walk on. Interesting and unfashionable is where the real fun is – and, likely, the values of tomorrow.”
– Peter Thiel
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Wrong – Unknown
“I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”
– Unknown
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Imagination – David Geffen
“I’ve always thought that each person invented himself. We are each a figment of our own imagination. Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.”
– David Geffen
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Value – Unknown
“Always gift people in the currency they value.”
– Unknown
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Books – Neil Gaiman
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
– Neil Gaiman