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To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right.
“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
“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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“A strong enough situation renders the whole question of plot moot, which is fine with me. The most interesting situations can usually be expressed as a 'what-if' question...”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of despair is in reality a gain rather than a loss. Any experience is to be regarded as a part of one’s assets.”
― Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
― Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
“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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Anthropology, Philosophy, and STS
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A group for students or readers of anthropology, practitioners of anthropology, or dabblers in the field. Any philosophy or STS books that seem releva ...more
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