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“I imagine standing in the center of this house of mirrors and looking at my infinite reflections. Each of the personalities we live, if they are just reflections on the mirror, then they are illusions. What we strive for is to unlearn the vocabulary, energy, and awareness of each of these reflections to reach our dissolving ‘self’, the one standing in the center. The observer.”

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