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When something difficult or uncomfortable happens—when a storm comes to your garden—the three ways to engage your mind give you a very useful, step-by-step sequence. First, be with your experience. Observe it and accept it for what it is
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“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― Blindness
― Blindness
“Independence was enriching, but most often it meant loss, isolation, and cultural deprivation,”
― Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History
― Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History
“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”
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“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress
“Like the big collaborative projects of the internet, such as Wikipedia and Firefox, like the decentralized network of websites and machines that make up the internet itself, language is a network, a web. Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms, language is humanity's most spectacular open source project.”
― Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
― Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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