“You should make life fit to you, not to make you fit life…”
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“You spend your whole life trying to work out where you fit.”
Source: Novels, That Eye, the Sky (1986), Ch.4 - p.25
“Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the “standard” profile.”
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"Assorted Landmines", p. 148
Awareness (1992)
Context: As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.
“To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder…”
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Context: To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder… The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.
“Religion is like a pair of shoes….. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
“Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.xiv