experience is incompressible

The chicken needs to peck through the eggshell and develop the strength through the pecking in order to make it. If you break the shell for them, they will die. If you mess with the origin in any subtle way, it can affect the entire trajectory

“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”

Almost everything that holds meaning, weight, and gravity, cannot be reached by a shortcut, by sheer force alone. But by acceptance. Acceptance that what you desire for can survive contact with the world, and will yield meaning. You have to devote the time it takes to inhabit the world, chip away at its interior. No one can break the shell for you!

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There are necessary developmental thresholds someone has to pass through, and there's no real salve or proxy for it. You can give advice from a vantage point of wisdom, but someone has to go through the experience in order to internalize the lesson. Transformation occurs through multiple collisions with reality. Almost everything that holds meaning

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