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“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”

“If you ignore your feelings they will get your attention in other ways.”

“are you holding the-”

Once she stopped rushing through life, she was amazed at how much more life she had time for.

You wanna know what makes this better?

“The hopeless dream of being – not seeming, but being. At every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone. The vertigo and the constant hunger to be exposed, to be seen through, perhaps even wiped out. Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace. Suicide? No, too vulgar. But you can refuse to move, refuse to talk, so that you don’t have to lie. You can shut yourself in. Then you needn’t play any parts or make wrong gestures. Or so you thought. But reality is diabolical. Your hiding place isn’t watertight. Life trickles in from the outside, and you’re forced to react. No one asks if it is true or false, if you’re genuine or just a sham.”

“…If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery which the world is filled with, even in its smallest Things, could bear it, endure it, more solemnly, feel how terribly heavy it is, instead of taking it lightly.”

“A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy.”

“All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing… Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders… You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple… You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary…”