B.G. Bowers Quotes

#1. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

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#2. There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

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#3. Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.

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#4. Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

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#5. Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

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#6. Death is the great disruptor; it thrusts us opposite life's mirror, invites our truthful exploration, and reveals the naked truth; from which rebirth is possible and we are free to reinvent ourselves anew.

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#7. The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance and initiates an internal war that manifests differently in each individual, but almost always includes anger, withdrawal and severe depression.

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#8. My hand-stitched wings itch
to take flight
to test the winds of change
that inevitably blow
at the end
of a cycle.

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#9. When I discarded the idea that God was not a man (as I had been raised to think and believe without question), I grew distant, and the flame that once lit my path began to flicker and hiss like a candle burnt to its wick, making longevity impossible without a new energy source.

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#10. Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

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#11. Secure your dreams for they are the wings of your soul, and, when vulnerable, flight is inconceivable.

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#12. I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.

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#13. Death was a smokescreen between Life and myself.

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