We aren't pigs as you seem to think, but human beings. We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
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Then came those years in which I was forced to recognize the existence of a drive within me that had to make itself small and hide from the world of light. The…
Permalink to quote #12 If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Permalink to quote #14 I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
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