People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody.
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That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. What's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.
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But sometimes when an actual example appears, it all comes down to a question of whether or not you accept it, or if you believe it. There's no middle ground. You have to make a mental leap. Logic can't really help you out.
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Even if you find out, down the road, that it is too late, that's different from the logic of it.
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You need to use the thread of logic, as best you can, to skillfully sew onto yourself everything that's worth living for.
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance with a passage through acute loss. This is what lies at the root of true harmony.
