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Are We Real? Does Love Exist?
I have a deep feeling that I am not completely real, but rather that I am a fabricated and skillfully made fake and every human being in this world feels this feeling from time to time, but I live this feeling all the time, and sometimes I even think that I am nothing but an artistic cinematic production that they have mastered in making.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Everyone talks about peace but no one teaches peace…you are educated for competition, and competition is the beginning of every war…
— Maria Montessori
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When we don’t truly know ourselves, we believe ourselves to be that voice inside the acquisitive mind — the voice that wants to be safe, that wants to be secure. On a functional level — you could also call it on an animal level — we need to be safe and secure. But on a psychological level, this need for safety and security prevents us from knowing our true awake nature…
If you are to live fully awake and fully human, you are required to look within and ask what stands in the way of unclenching the ego’s grip on life.
Can you tell the truth about your suffering?
Can you be honest with yourself about how you fight with your experience, how you make an enemy of your thoughts and your…
