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This choice, in other words, is to crawl into a comfortable cave with nice people and become a church, a culture, a society within a society.
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
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Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
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