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" When I wake up in the morning I don’t bound up out of bed and go cook a bowl of oatmeal, I have to swim up through calcified layers of regret …I wake up chained to a cement block at the bottom of a swamp of failure.   "
Patton Oswalt , “To Be Loved & Understood

"  All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define yourself. All definitions apply to your body only and to its expressions. Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly.   "

Nisargadatta Maharaj

at all times be willing and able to discard everything you once were.

"   I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.   "

Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You

"   Eternal nothingness is O.K. if you’re dressed for it.   "

"   I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, not all that Carrie teenage telekinetic wank, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.   "

"   The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.   "

"   Instructions for living a life. 
Pay attention. 
Be astonished. 
Tell about it.   "

“maybe if I drink another coffee, I will feel better”

“maybe if I buy myself a new sweater, I will feel better”

“maybe if I get so drunk I can’t see, I will feel better”

“maybe if I sleep for fourteen hours, I will feel better”

"   I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.   "