We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. — Brené Brown.

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson

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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust

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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future. ― Eleanor Brown

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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. -Terence McKenna

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We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie

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