"No one begins to truly search for the Way until their parents have failed them, their gods are dead, and their tools have shattered in their hand."
https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1107874587822297089
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+Robert Stadler
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+https://www.glowfic.com/posts/4508?page=14
+> Real people have concepts of their own minds, and contemplate their prior ideas of themselves in relation to a continually observed flow of their actual thoughts, and try to improve both their self-models and their selves.