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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
-- C.G. Jung
FAREWELL
Madame: I was told that you took the trouble to come here to see me three times last evening. I was not in. And, fearing lest persistence expose you to humiliation, I am bound by the rules of politeness to warn you that I shall never be in.
-- Gustave Flaubert's last letter to his mistress, Louise Colet
FEAR
What are we afraid of that makes us accept so much that is intolerable? We are afraid of intimacy, of wildness, of love; afraid of the very things we desire, because if we acknowledged them we would have to acknowledge the possibility of losing them. If we fail in this century, it won't be because of arrogance, it'll be because of fear.
-- Terry Tempest Williams
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