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“Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.”

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Derren Brown, born on February 27, 1971, is a renowned magician and performance artist from the United Kingdom. Known for his unique blend of magic, psychology, and theater, Brown creates stunning stage effects that captivate and amaze audiences. more

“Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.”

“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”

Dream Unconscious Royal Conscious And Unconscious Paraphrased Interpretation Of Dreams Neurologists Paraphrasing Summarizing

Author:Sigmund Freud

“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”

Humans Long Stills Whole Exile Eden

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both." Ruthless Trust, pg 22”

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