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“Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you’ll freeze to death, you’ll starve to death.” And so on. It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.”
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“Deep down, our minds yearn to make sense of our world. We do this by naming things, creating stories, and using storytelling to explain how everything fits together – from societal norms to who we are and how we relate to our environment. This is what Storr calls the theory of control. The stories we craft about ourselves and the world based on our deeply held beliefs are often flawed.”
― Philosophy for Business Leaders: Asking Questions, Navigating Uncertainty, and the Quest for Meaning
― Philosophy for Business Leaders: Asking Questions, Navigating Uncertainty, and the Quest for Meaning
“Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, “I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren’t going to want to go on living.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Aimlessness does not mean doing nothing. It means not putting something in front of you to chase after. When we remove the objects of our craving and desires, we discover that happiness and freedom are available to us right here in the present moment.”
― The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
― The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
“Clinging is born to someone who dwells on the spheres of the senses; desire is born from clinging; and anger is born from desire. 63”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
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