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Be What You Are

The most difficult discipline is to be what you are. Constantly trying to be what you are not is much easier, because we are trained to con either ourselves or others, to fit things into appropriate categories. Whereas if you take all of that away, the whole thing becomes too irritating, too boring. There is no room for talking yourself into anything. Everything is quite simple.

 

From Crazy Wisdom, page 13.

 

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