I think you understand the rare gift that you have absconded....and what rare form, what endangered Pisces, do you find slumped over, nary a song in her heart (or on the pursed lips of her competitors) nor a copy of Variety beside the claw foot bathtub boiling over with the smell of fish, an anemic femininity, and bubbles, and all the fun that they imply. But step out a second, step away from the game and imagine the jewel you can offer your clients, think about the core of authenticity and liberation that the nihilism reveals. When you want nothing, when you savor its implications for yourself and for those you advise, you are able to cherish the everything that saturates--with rich reward--he magic of the present, the exceptional mysteries of being (the beauty and complexity that surrounds us) and the pleasures of that experience.
"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
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