1. The Plain Girl - Chapter 6: Crash Recovery


    Date: 10/24/2017, Categories: Love Stories, Author: xreynolds, Rating: 4, Source: LushStories

    them. How do you make an assessment of yourself? And if your life takes its course only on the basis of what is going on around you in this way, you may think you have control over it but you don’t really. Not to mention, in the end you can have no satisfaction for yourself, you are merely satisfying the world that never sees past your intoxicating exterior. At the best, you are just manipulating drunks and where’s the ego trip in that?” “You’re right, these eggs suck.” Karla put down her fork. Claire was relieved to see that she was tracking. “You have to make self honesty the most important thing. Once you resolve to really live your life by that code you will start putting out a different scent and attract completely different people into your life. You begin to move in a different world. In a sense, you even begin to create a different world.” “It is not enough that you just think it and go on living as if you hadn’t. You have to feel it. But you are afraid that if you strip yourself of your illusions about your glamorous exterior you will not be able to stand the emptiness. But you got it wrong. All wrong. That empty spot in you can generate an irresistible power to draw what it is that you truly need; draw it to within your reach. Once it touches you, you are changed forever.” “ You know I am not cut out to be a Nun or something.” Karla was not so foolish to think that asceticism would ever be a solution for her. “Do I look like a nun?" Claire exclaimed! "Why do ...
    people always think that you have to go back to the 17th Century - as if it were the only path to spiritual maturity? We need to learn to live life to the fullest, with all the resources we have been given. And we can do that without compromising who we truly are.” “That devilish side of you wouldn’t even exist except you’ve adopted it to rebel against what in reality is an old conception of being good that doesn’t even apply to you; one that you’ve absorbed from tradition and you conceal it even from yourself.” “Many think that by “being bad” they’ve become liberated, but those two poles are bound to each other. Neither pertain to the sense that you must acquire for doing the right thing, regardless of who thinks what about it.” “You can try to box in that beast all you want, but by wrestling with it, it only gets stronger and more clever. Sooner or later, she’ll wear you out. Then you end up on some strange bathroom floor in your own puke. In the meantime the real you just withers up.” “And, Karla, for cryin’ out loud, stop obsessing with yourself. You need the world and those in it; otherwise you would live only for yourself. If you want to discover meaning for yourself, you will find it only in what streams back to you from others.” “And so,” Karla completed the thought, “if I am happy with just being pretty, that is all I will ever find out about.” “Karla, just to know this is already a huge progress.” “Why didn’t we have this conversation five years ago?” Karla was actually ...
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