On the other hand, there are some ways in which the bicameral mind makes more sense to me than the ill-fitting accounts I’ve been taught to believe about myself. I often receive emotions and insights that seem to arrive with no heredity in conscious thought, and I have to undergo a process of tracing them backwards to understand where they came fro

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The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.

We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a j

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