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Epigenetics combined with the philosophical idea of Determinism made me wonder if free will is—if not an illusion—a bit of a mirage. That, in addition to the environment we grow up in, the contour and texture of our lives are shaped—in part—by some form of genetic predetermination.
In America, a lie becomes the truth with sufficient repetition. I merely tell the crowd what they need to hear to be satisfied.”
Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there, it’s that we ignore the ones who are.
parents always stressed that karma is transpersonal. It’s not about doing good or bad, making wise of foolish choices, for our own karmic benefit. It’s about how our choices can improve the quality of other people’s journeys. Our family’s, our children’s, our partners’, romantic and otherwise.
The simple exercise of trying not to think had never been simple for Dorothy and always felt like a trick, an inside joke with a punch line that only other people understood. Or pretended to understand, the way people would talk about a classic novel at
cocktail party, in a florid, roundabout way, hiding the fact that they’d never actually read the thing let alone understood the metaphoric meaning, real or imagined.
