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The things you learn in maturity aren't simple things such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to engage in self-destructive behavior. You leant not to burn up energy in anxiety. You discover how to manage your tensions, if you have any, which you do. You learn that self-pity and resentment are among the most toxic of drugs. You find that the world loves talent, but pays off on character.

You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.

Those are things that are hard to learn early in life, As a rule you have to have picked up some mileage and some dents in your fenders before you understand. As Norman Douglas said "There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.'

"We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me."

1Q84, Murakami

In my dreams I am kissing your mouth and you’re whispering ‘where have you been?’ I say, ‘I’ve been lost but I’m here now. You’re the only person who has ever been able to find me.

| Sue Zhao

“If you spend your time chasing butterflies they’ll fly away. If you spend your time making a beautiful garden for them, they’ll come to you. And if they don’t, you’ll still have your garden.”

Whether you are brave or not cannot be judged by people on the outside. Sometimes being brave requires letting the crowd think you’re a coward. Sometimes being brave means letting everyone down but yourself…She trusted her own voice more than she trusted the voices of others. You don’t ask others what’s brave, you feel and know what’s brave…loyalty of self. To be brave is to forsake all others to be true to yourself.

Untamed by Glennon Doyle
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“When you are truly in the elegant state of creation, you are no body, no thing, no time — you forget about yourself. You become pure consciousness, free from the chains of the identity that needs the outer reality to remember who it thinks it is.”

I'm increasingly thinking that every functioning system has two forms: The abstraction that outsiders are led to believe, and the reality that insiders actually and carefully operate.

You don't incrementally learn a system. You eventually unlearn its necessary lies.

— @dakami

To question everything that has been given to you, to constantly oppose your own ideas: that is what it means to free your mind.

Heidegger

Maybe the desire to make something beautiful, is the piece of God that is inside each of us.

Mary Oliver’s "Blue Horses"