“It doesn’t take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone’s gaze. It’s not totally accurate to say that I felt seen. It was more that: Beheld by her, I learned how to become myself. Her interest actualized me.” SelfBecomingSelf UnderstandingActualizationBeing SeenBecoming YourselfFeeling Seen Book:Bliss Montage Source: Bliss Montage
“Whatever I felt, whatever this feeling was inside of me, there is no place for it. There is no place for it to go, and I would have to carry it around inside of me for a long time, so long that it would fossilize and become a part of me.” LifeSelfFeelingsInternalizing Book:Bliss Montage Source: Bliss Montage
“In sex, in towel wringing, in dishwashing, as in everything else, he was exactly himself. If being exactly yourself meant you had to suffer the loneliness of being unlike anyone else, he seemed not to mind. The insularity of his lifestyle cradled him.” SelfLifestyleBeing YourselfUniquenessEccentricityInsularityBeing Oneself Book:Bliss Montage Source: Bliss Montage