Is that right?
It would be ridiculous, anyway, to have figured so much out at 35. What are you going to do for the next 50 years? Settle deeper and deeper until you’re dead in the ground? It sounds much more interesting to keep being surprised by who you are and what you want.
I’m not arguing that experience doesn’t bring about wisdom, only that wisdom is an endle... See more
I’m not arguing that experience doesn’t bring about wisdom, only that wisdom is an endle... See more
Haley Nahman • #110: The Trick of the Epiphany
WE GENERALLY FEEL defined by our past. Our past, however, is a story that we tell ourselves in the present. We create it every day when we accept the narratives we have developed about who we are and why we are who we are. ‘I’m like this because this happened to me’ is a common refrain in the modern world, where familiar fragments of psychoanalysis
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I saw that the entity I had taken to be “me” was really a fabrication. My true nature, I realized, was much more real, both uglier and more beautiful than I could have imagined.
Maria Popova • How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
I’d started believing I was somebody else, and I needed the world to remind me of who I thought I was. I was actually living two different lives. No longer did I want to be trapped by that.