A. A. Attanasio - Radix (1981)

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If you want to find a good place to be, no place you find will be good enough. But if you let it all go, if you really empty your head, then any place you are is right. And, even more wonderful, you can be any place at all — even the moon!

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Ego is synthesized like fingernails or hair. It's a carapace, a protective covering, a husk. It surrounds the feeling-self and can never be done away with or the being will die. The most one can hope for is transparency. The ego must be clear. It's never a question of will, of doing something to improve yourself. You are.

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Thought is a matrix which engenders its own reality. The ideas, concepts, belief-systems that your ancestors trapped have become your trap.

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The stars baked my bones; The oceans culled my blood, And the forests shaped my lungs. Who am I?

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