A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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