"In ordinary life you know yourself from your surroundings, which become the measure and the mirror of your thoughts and actions. Remove the familiar and you are left with a stranger, the disembodied voice of one's own self which, robbed of its usual habits, seems barely recognizable."
An Unexpected Light
- Travels In Afghanistan by Jason
Elliot, Picador, London, 1999 - page 144.
We gain and gather these habits over a lifetime and from our ancestors, and do not even realize it. Lose the habits and find yourself.
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