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“Other people can be annoying, as Sartre famously suggested, but true hell is perpetual imprisonment in the self.”

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“Don’t present yourself to people as a blank sheet; they will paint you with their preferred colors, then your life will be in problem. Choose your own colors and paint it the way you want the world to see you. Make it a little brighter so you stand out.”

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“Every day we are creating a self that stands as a witness and a contributor to the history of our generation, which is a citizen of the world.”

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“如果我必須覺得比你強，才能自我感覺良好，那麼，我又能把你或自己看得多清楚呢？”

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“...narrative therapy says that who we are is largely a product of the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. [...] In other words, our narratives about ourselves don't merely reflect who we are: they help produce who we are.”

Book:A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

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“Wearing a mask can thus be a strange thing: sometimes, more often than we tend to believe, there is more truth in the mask that in what we assume to be our "real self.”

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“Cause, remember: no matter where you go... there you are.”

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“In one way, what I saw in those mirrors was the self trapped inside the self, forever. But in another way, the self in the mirror was opening out, in an infinite unfurling. I am the one whose drive is being thwarted. And I am the one who is thwarting it.”

Book:Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

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“So often when we are unhappy it is becasue we are taking too much responsibility or we are taking too little. Instead of being assertive and choosing clearly for ourselves, we might become aggressive (choosing for others) or passive (letting others choose for us), or passive-aggressive (choosing for others by preventing them from achieving what they are choosing for themselves).”

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Book:The Choice: Embrace the Possible

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“If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.”

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“In reality there is no such thing as someone being able to “stay permanently” in the Self. No one has ever done it: the Buddha couldn’t do it, neither could Christ do it. Rather, the Self has been recognized as what we are, and it is effortlessly and timelessly perfect, always. In truth, there is no actual “in and out” of the Self, no fluctuation—for these are seen to arise within the immutable awareness.”

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Book:Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space

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