The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
A Circle of Quiet
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A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
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