Authenticity
What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?
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Authenticity
Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.
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When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, movements like Theosophy offered a kind of third way, a path toward understanding the world between science and religion. Theosophy was in conversation with both realms, using tools like magical
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“I think one of the marks of maturity […] - is the willingness to be seen exactly as I am.
As we grow more settled and mature, we become less hidden to others, more transparent to ourselves as well as to each other.
With this growing authenticity comes a deepening of intimacy with each... See more
“People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.”
-John Lennon
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment