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The Real World is Inner

David Price
4 min readJun 8, 2023

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Study for the Figure Gorgon, Guilio Aristide Sartorio, 1896–1899.

This perspective, that the real world is inner, not outer, is something that I used to believe as a child. When my inner world was vivid. And I know that’s a very eastern idea also.

Every dark thing one falls into can be called an initiation. To be initiated into a thing means to go into it!

~Marie-Louise von Franz

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I’m interested in human people. People who laugh at their mistakes are those who are successful, who understand their calling and don’t hide from responsibility. Who defends human dignity and wants to be on the side of truth, justice, righteousness. This is what living is for.

I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch the hearts of others. Who, through the blows of fate, was able to rise and maintain the softness of the soul.

My goal is to reach the end in harmony with myself, my loved ones and my conscience.

— Anthony Hopkins

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That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one’s passion.

— Marguerite Duras

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“Where is my role model now that my role model is gone?” stuck in my mind in my twenties. I wanted fathering. I wanted…

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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