“My responsibility is toward my heart, not toward anybody else in the world. So is your responsibility only toward your own being. Don’t go against it, because going against it is committing suicide, is destroying yourself. And what is the gain? Even if people give you respect, and people think that you are a very sober, respectable, honorable man, these things are not going to nourish your being. They are not going to give you any more insight into life and its tremendous beauty.”
-Osho from the book: Courage
Metamorphosis
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“There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“70. We do not value work because we do not value ourselves. And we regard the objects made and lived with as depressed, depleted mirrors of our sorry self hatred.
71. We then make up new/old categories such as artisanal and make cocktails, handbags, and nouveau cuisine for the wealthy as a compensatory gesture.”
The 95 Theses On Painting -Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.