Monday, November 4, 2024

the nonlinearity of how we become who we are







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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily — perhaps not possibly — chronological. The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.


—Eudora Welty


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A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity;

a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material;

a continually changing constellation of potentialities,
not a fixed quantity of traits.


—Carl Rogers


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As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. 
And as the old Greeks said: live as though 
all your ancestors were living again through you.


—Ted Hughes



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