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Society of Happy Chuckleheads
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis, and we’d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
— William Styron
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There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have their human contact.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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Many people don’t realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away, that nothing ever had anything to do with who they are. In the proximity of death, the whole concept of ownership stands revealed as ultimately meaningless.
In the last moments of their life, they then also realize that while they were looking throughout their lives for a more complete sense of self, what they were really looking for, their Being, had actually always already been there, but had been largely obscured by their identification with things, to things.
…Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them. In the meantime, just be aware of your attachment to things.
~ Eckhart Tolle
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