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Aptavani 05 & 06

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“Worldy life is not wrong, it is worldly interaction (relative viewpoint). But You should Know Yourself (real viewpoint). Without Knowing your true Self, how can you simultaneously engage in worldly interaction? To possess a body is worldly interaction. However, the inquiry about 'Who am I?' still remains to be done, does it not? How long can there be darkness? Since infinite lifetimes, you have been wandering from one life to another. You have not wandered for one or two lifetimes; (but for) infinite lifetimes....”

“When I think about Fabio these days, I know he's the person who has loved me most, and just as I was, with all that flab he knew how to enjoy; with my butt like a barrel and my kitchen-table legs, and all the edginess of my personality—I suppose the medication softened those edges, though never to the point of eradication—every one of my facial expressions, my freckles, my pale complexion, and the threads of spittle in the corners of my mouth, a for-the-time-being that was more hopeless than anyone else's for-the-time-being, because I had no hope that anything better than what was happening could happen, and I didn't even want what was happening.”

“Some folks might call it giving up, but that never felt quite right. It was more like knowing when to stop kneading and wait for the dough to rise. Maybe later I'd be able to choose a direction. I might make rolls, or loaves, or spread the dough with cinnamon and sugar, or dried fruits or herbs or a dozen other things. Maybe I made a mistake somewhere earlier and the dough wouldn't rise at all. No way to know, nothing to do but wait. It might even look like being brave.”