The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Jack Kerouac

“in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.”

The Seven-Storied Mountain, an autobiography by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton,

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found / Among the most ruthlessly exploited classes:

Buddhism wasn’t responsible for the insane atrocities of human history

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all of life is “just a dream,”

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that the cause of death is birth or procreation,

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that the cause of death is birth or procreation,

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Bums

#charity

the first sip is joy the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.”

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After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

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“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”

#freedom