But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Interpretation
Avoiding your past can lead to it haunting you in unexpected ways.
This quote reflects the idea that if you choose to ignore or avoid confronting your past experiences or traumas, those unresolved issues will inevitably resurface and demand your attention. It suggests that engaging with our past is essential for personal growth and peace.
In practice
During a counseling session, this quote could be used to illustrate the importance of addressing unresolved issues.
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you
I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.
But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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