The Atlas Paradox (Atlas Series Book 2)

“The idea that everyone is born with access to some larger, interconnected subconscious. Something we share as a species, instead of something determined for us as individuals.”

blithe

They approximated beauty without actually reaching it, much like Callum’s face typically looked to himself.

one thing Parisa had come to learn was that other people’s view of her said far more about them than it ever did about her.

He now believed the desire to live to be more than philosophy, more than psychology, but rather, a primordial principle of physics.

his projection-self postured on. “Do you think they know what it really means to love?” his projection-self mused aloud to him. “That it isn’t the simple joy of fondness, I mean. In fact it’s violent, destructive. It means to cut the heart out of your chest and give it to someone else.”

This is what it means to be a god: to enforce a new era of change.

Jung said the self was the sum total of a person’s psyche. The part that looked forward, the process of individuation, the quest to become something more.

(If you do not know precisely where impossibility begins and ends, then of course it cannot constrain you.)