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Thoreau
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History is a sad testament to the limitations of external change, or changing things from the outside.
A dime a dozen and almost invariably overrated in hindsight, countless revolutions, insurgencies, wars, conflicts, struggles and social movements have stubbornly—and blindly—sought to create a better world.
Yet true, lasting transformation remains elusive at the groupthink level. We grapple with the same issues, generation after generation, in this hamster wheel called ‘reality.’ Why is exter
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― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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Feb. 26, 1841. To be great, we do as if we would be tall merely, be longer than we are broad, stretch ourselves and stand on tiptoe. But greatness is well proportioned, unstrained, and stands on the soles of the feet.
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― Selected Writings
― Selected Writings
