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"I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me."
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"I have enjoyed my company so fondly, I may not feel alone when I am lonely."

"Oh, how clearly I see your faults! Such distinctly highlighted flaws; it's as if the sun and moon mean to keep them illuminated in my eyes. My mind is quick to spell out a simple remedy for those defects. But alas, poor me! My own faults-which I only assume to have because all do-are blurred and obscured by a mental fog. I've no eyes with which to gaze back at myself. The sun and moon refuse their illumination, and my mind offers no sure elixir but a complex recipe scribbled in foreign words I scarcely comprehend."

"Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them."

"If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within 'why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only."

"Your inner light lights up your outer world."

"What I do is the truest mirror of who I am."

"If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you."

"I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets."

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"When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds."
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