Dopamine Junkie Reading Reading trying to reach the sublime. . . .

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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people,. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at
such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely
and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that--one
in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best
he can. Each man carries the vestiges of his birth--the slime and
eggshells of his primeval past--with him to the end of his days.
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We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at
the same door. But each of us--experiments of the depths--strives
toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each
of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.

- Herman Hesse, Demian