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“Darlings, this may be the only great escape we ever make: start dropping your past behind you–seeds, kernels to be pecked up by scavengers. You won’t find your way back. Or try this: package it, mark it Was. Leave it in a locker at the Greyhound Bus station.”

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“When we’re HIGH on life, then it’s because we have managed to strip away and let go of all of the barriers within ourselves that hold us back from life’s pure signal; when we’re LOW on life (at rock bottom), then it’s because we stopped listening for so long that life stripped those barriers away and forced us to listen.”