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« It is that suffering (which reveals our limits) places the body at the heart of my quest, a noble companion that has not always appeared to me as such. It imposes itself in force: the seat of pain, the provider of pleasure, the foundation of being, the body constitutes a real conquest. To tame it, perhaps to inhabit it, is yet another task for the apprentice who embarks on the profession of man. »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job |
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Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job
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« Unconsciously I perceived and understood that my presence was for many people associated with a failure, an accident. I embodied for them a kind of suffering that made them feel guilty. They were almost guilty of my disability. I was playing the role of a bad conscience. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness |
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness
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« As long as we squander our energy, which is weak on certain days, to want to remake the world, we miss the joy of the present moment and what is given. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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