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The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "i might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least i'm not gay or black or a jew." meaning: i may be me- but at least i have the good sense not to be you.

-Chuck Palahniuk

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The First Time We Meet Another Person

Chuck Palahniuk

The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "i might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least i'm not gay or black or a jew." meaning: i may be me- but at least i have the good sense not to be you.

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But what i would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "you are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... i want you to hear that voice. it is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. it comes from a very deep place. it is soft and gentle. i want you to gradually hear that voice. we both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. it tells us who we are.

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but i refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. there's a little voice that says, 'oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' that's the voice of show business. then this other little voice says, 'try it.' and most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'no,' that's the time it works.

Let us thank god for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. let us give thanks to him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.

The little mute boy the little boy was looking for his voice. (the king of the crickets had it.) in a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. i do not want it for speaking with; i will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger in a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (the captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.) translated by william s. merwin

There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. it is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. it is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. it is a voice with love and without love. i like the voice, and though i can't talk to it, i like the way it talks to me. it says it is all the same, young man. take it and let it be.

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