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It's like what the Stranger says in Lebowski: "Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, we'll, he eats you."

Karass is another, [word] from Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Your karass is your family in life, not necessarily your biological family. It may even include people you loathe, but they're in your sphere in a very strong way.

Trim Tabbing...giant ocean going tankers need a giant rudder to make them turn. But engineers discovered that it takes too much enery to turn the giant rudder. Instead, they came up with the trim tab, a tiny rudder attached to the big rudder. The little rudder turns the big rudder and the big rudder turns the ship...The way to turn society around is to realize that you're connected to something bigger.

...I came to realize that happiness is right here, available right under my feet. Robert Johnson wrote that the word happiness comes from to happen. Our happiness is what happens.

"People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait." Bernie Glassman

"People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait." Bernie Glassman