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"ref": "1964, The Illustrated Weekly of India - Volume 85, page 67",
"text": "He fell into himself, his half-closed eyes looking into an edgeless nowhere.",
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"ref": "2002, R.A. Salvatore, Transcendence",
"text": "He lost all sensation of time and space, fell into himself more completely than he had ever known possible, touched his life force with his consciousness for the first time.",
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"ref": "2010, Sandy Grason, Journalution, page 142",
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"ref": "2012, Genevieve Wood, Kindling Our Stars: Nurturing Bright and Dark Flames, page 136",
"text": "The more you hold on to the everyday, the farther away you are from surrendering. Fall. Fall into yourself, into the deep spaces that lie within.",
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"ref": "2015, James C. Harrington, Sidney G. Hall III, Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern",
"text": "The celebrated Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, for example, in the 20th century will describe, almost hauntingly, his mid-life experience of falling into himself.",
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"ref": "2002, Dana Johnson, Break Any Woman Down: And Other Stories, page 185",
"text": "But you fall into yourself around these, these jokers. You become a mouse.",
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"ref": "2012, Tau Malachi, The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas",
"text": "When trials come and you fall into yourself and close your heart, suffering is increased and intensified.",
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"ref": "2017, Hannah Polanco, Words of Venom",
"text": "Mama, who had been looking so strong this morning, seemed to fall into herself. Her blankets would swallow her alive if she sank further into the bed.",
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