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It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.
“Think for yourself and figure out what’s true. That’s it. Ask yourself what’s true until you know.”
― Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
― Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult ―once we truly understand and accept it― then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“Here I am at these crossroads again,
wondering what will never become of me.
Now and then, I'll take one on the chin.
Because I wear my heart upon my sleeve.”
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wondering what will never become of me.
Now and then, I'll take one on the chin.
Because I wear my heart upon my sleeve.”
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“Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.”
― Prometheus Rising
― Prometheus Rising
“And any domesticated primate alpha male, however cruel or crooked, can rally the primate tribe behind him by howling that a rival alpha male is about to lead his gang in an attack on this habitat. These two mammalian reflexes are known, respectively, as Religion and Patriotism. They work for domesticated primates, as for the wild primates, because they are Evolutionary Relative Successes. (So far.)”
― Prometheus Rising
― Prometheus Rising
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