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To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right.
“She was a Canadian and had all their easy social graces.”
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“The phenomenal field is neither caused nor defined but constituted by the sensorimotor structures and capacities of the body. The structure of perception just is the structure of the body: my body “is my point of view upon the world”
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“To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.”
― The Happiness Project
― The Happiness Project
“Merleau-Ponty’s central philosophical insight about perception, then, is that it is not just contingently but essentially bodily. Perception is not a private mental event, nor is our own body just one more thing in the world alongside others”
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“In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
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