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“When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open.”

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“On me obgrli i čujem kako je udahnuo, kao da zajedno s udahom uvlači u sebe svaki djelić mene. Pritisne tijelo uz moje i osjetim njegovu toplinu, tvrdoću, snagu. Sklopim oči i protrljam nos o njegova prsa. Miriše na borovinu i osjećam kako mu srce tuče u grudima. Privijem mu se još bliže jer nisam u stanju zanemariti strast koja se razbuktava u meni. On mi provlači prste kroz kosu i osjećam njegove usne na uhu, na vratu. O Bože, odavno se nisam ovako ljubila. Polako dignem lice k njegovu. Njegove oči, ispunjene strašću, zatvore se i on spusti usne na moje.”

“You came into this world at this time because you wanted to. You chose it as a spiritual mission, and you arrived ready and prepared. You can do hard things. Instead of losing hope, recognise that you are part of a global awakening and a shift in human consciousness that has been centuries in the making, and you have a role to play.”

“But surely, say these good apostles, you aren't going to discredit reality in the eyes of those who already find it difficult enough to get by, and who surely have a right to reality and the fact that they exist? The same objection for the Third World: surely you aren't going to discredit affluence in the eyes of those dying of starvation? Or: surely you aren't going to run down the class struggle in the eyes of those who haven't even had their bourgeois revolution? Or again: you aren't going to discredit feminist and egalitarian demands in the eyes of all those who haven't even heard of women's rights, etc.? You may not like reality, but don't put others off it! It's a question of democratic morality: you must not demoralize the masses. You must never demoralize anyone. Underlying these charitable intentions is a profound contempt. First, in the fact of instating reality as a kind of life insurance or a burial plot held in perpetuity, as a kind of human right or consumer good. But, above all, in crediting people with placing their hope only in the visible proofs of their existence: by imputing this plaster-saint realism to them, one takes them for naive and feeble-minded. In their defence, it has to be said that the propagandists of reality vent that contempt on themselves first of all, reducing their own lives to an accumulation of facts and evidence, causes and effects. Well-ordered resentment always begins at home.”