“I suppose it is possible to be all of these things. To sort of fall out of who you are into another, as well as to journey back to some essential sense of self. We only see what we see. He was whatever he needed to be, what we asked him to be. Perhaps there are lives like that—they pour into whatever space we have made ready for them to fill.”
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“He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.”
“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
“Life can be awkward at times. It is part of the growing process.”
“When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.”