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“True feeling is always circular - either circular, or paradoxical - simply because its cause and its expression are tow halves of the very same thing! Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love. Any man who disagrees with me has never been in love - not truly.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“If each of us takes personal responsibility for managing our heart’s energy (not someone else’s), imagine how the world might change.”
― Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
― Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
“Ethics and morals do, in reality, have a place in law—although not in jurisprudence. It is morals that help us make the laws, but morals do not help us apply them.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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