“The great paradox of personhood is that the sum is simpler than its parts. We move through the world as a totality, fragmentary but indivisible, clothed in a costume of personality beneath which roil parts perpetually fighting for power, perpetually yearning for harmony. The person making the choices, the person bearing their consequences, and the person taking responsibility for them are rarely the same person.”
If this resonates wiht you, go to the source and read the entire article by Maria Popova: How to Be a Living Unison: D. H. Lawrence on Harmonizing the Conflicting Parts We Live With
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