Your consciousness is telling you a story about yourself which isn't true.
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You can know it isn't true while accepting it, defending it, and even promoting it.
While trying desperately to control our lives, the one truth we cannot admit to consists of
declaring our own thoughts uncontrolable. We are too busy trying to live up to the lie of who we are
and the impossibility we can control anything about ourselves.
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Occasionally we appear to succeed at an effort lying in the path of a goal we've set--totally unaware
that particular goal was completely inevitable in view of who we really are.
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The red herring of forgiving others is the clue we, ourselves, are not who we say we are.
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The inherent beauty of life is in the impermanence; the essence every person most devoutly seeks to escape.
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The highest skills in life lie in how artistically we make repairs to brokeness.
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Without damage there is no need of repair.
Without the need of repair where is the necessity of compassion, forgiveness, mercy and improvement?
What is progress but improvement by repair?
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Death and brokeness are not the end of all ends--as mankind has feared in its headlong plunge into self-lies.
Those are but ultimate moments in a longer history of opportunity for change.
As Hemingway said in A Farewell to Arms:
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places."
What is heroic comes after the breaking in the legacy of embracing--(not the lie)--but the truth of impermanence.
We make idols of the pure, the pristine and the unbroken, and those idols--as all idols are--consist of lies.
Nothing in this or any other world escapes brokeness.
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The art of living is in how we die.
Life is the process of . . . always . . . dying.