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Tagore wrote in an essay entitled “A Poet’s School”:
We may become powerful by knowledge, but we attain fullness by sympathy. . . . But we find that this education of sympathy is not only systematically ignored in schools, but it is severely repressed. From our very childhood . . . our life is weaned away from nature and our mind and the world are set in opposition. . . .

Tagore wrote in an essay entitled “A Poet’s School”:
We may become powerful by knowledge, but we attain fullness by sympathy. . . . But we find that this education of sympathy is not only systematically ignored in schools, but it is severely repressed. From our very childhood . . . our life is weaned away from nature and our mind and the world are set in opposition. . . .

And that’s the point where it all changed for me. Also, at about the same time, I started asking myself, ‘What is the most important thing?’ And I came to the answer, ‘Eating.’” (hahahaa this guy is DIFFERENT)

It is as though through her practice of not grasping for either pleasure or comfort, she has both in abundance.

And to get that money, everyone throws away their own time that was free before, even if the work they do is not useful. Everyone around them thinks it’s natural and normal. Even though they’re incredibly busy on the physical, body level, moving around all the time, they are empty on the level of the spirit.”
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That is part of it; most people spend their time relating entirely to things that are made solely for the purpose of keeping the economy spinning, of making money for someone, such as television shows, and eating food that’s not good for them.