Outside inhibitions stifle inner expression.

Authenticity may require reconstructing one’s entire method of communicating with the world.

This can be arduous.

Don’t confuse arduous with inauthentic.

You’re not arduously trying to impress somebody. You’re arduously trying to STOP trying to impress somebody. Trying to stop behaving in a preordained way.

One is so conditioned these days that he doesn’t even know his real name.

It takes arduous effort to return to the original level of unhindered expressiveness and authenticity.

It takes arduous effort to clean up all that fucking mess of conventions and expectations.

But then – then it can be effortless again.