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Aditi Shah
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a lot of these remind me of a certain kind of writing found on tumblr circa 2014. comforting then, comforting now

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What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
100R — working offgrid efficiently
100R — working offgrid efficiently
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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself—and, if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself. For it is the unaccepted self that stands in my way—and will continue to do so as long as it is not accepted. When it has been accepted, it is my own stepping-stone to what is above me. Because this is the way man was made by God—and original sin was the effort to surpass oneself by being “like God,” i.e., unlike oneself. But our Godlikeness begins at home. We must become like ourselves, and stop living “beside ourselves.”

Merton, Thomas. A Year with Thomas Merton (Kindle Locations 4610-4615). HarperOne. Kindle Edition.

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