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Why Live?
I do not talk or write to be followed, but to get you to look into your own mind and find out for yourself what the score is.
— Alan Watts
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Of all the instruments of man, the most wonderful is, without a doubt, the book. Other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of your sight; the phone is the extension of your voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something entirely different: the book is an extension of the memory and the imagination.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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…I don’t mind people being happy — but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society, which is fear of sadness…We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position. It’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much…
~Hugh Mackay
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True love is made of four elements: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and…
