This is your life and it is ending one minute at a time - Neil Crofts quoting Tyler Durden says in Fight Club
There is something about the authentic that reaches you in ways you do not expect. To stand and look at the City wall in Nanjing is much more than reading it is 33.79 km long and was begun around 600 AD. You are on it and you feel it - Oxford Muse, July 05
Then and always he was too wise a poet to write down more doctrine than he could vitalise with poetry distilled from his inward experience - Dr AG Stock on WB Yeats
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear - Socrates
The authentic self is the soul made visible - Sarah Ban Breathnach.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Philip K. Dick
People closed their eyes to their own originality, feeling their way through life by imitation, guided by the memory of established models - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p65
Ours is the age of substitutes; instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas - Eric Bentley, New Republic (December 1952)
Our education system was designed in a different era, during the industrial revolution. It was designed to create obedient, disciplined and conformist workers who would be good at doing what they were told - to work in factories and fight in trenches. During its time this approach has served us well. It has helped us to create the relatively affluent and comfortable lifestyle that many of us enjoy today and yet it has also left many of us with the uncomfortable legacy of not truly knowing how or when to be true to ourselves, to be authentic - Neil Crofts
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead - Oscar Wilde