“Species loneliness” — a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship.
— Excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
“Crisis… is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis.”— Alain de Botton on the importance of breakdowns.
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“An unclarified mind represses its own faults and then projects them on all opponents.”— R. Collier (via childrenofthetao)
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When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.
~Ernest Hemingway
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75 years after India’s independence, I wonder how many forgotten stories have lead to where we are today!
“We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman happens to the human. What happens to the outer world happens to the inner world. If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished.”
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„Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.“
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“‘I think, therefore I am’ is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. ‘I feel, therefore I am’ is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that’s alive.”— Milan Kundera, Immortality
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Then it has to get out of the way. It will declare the world has stopped when the truth will be that the City has stopped. It is the counting-house that has gone bankrupt. For a long time now an increasing number of people have been asking questions about the world counting-house, getting down at last to such fundamental questions as “What is money?” and “Why are Banks?” It is disconcerting but stimulating to find that no lucid answer is forthcoming.
— New World Order, H.G.Wells
“Where once there were spaces in the day between events to digest information, reflect on occurances, notice one’s reactions, and be with one’s thoughts and emotions, now there is only time to whip out the cell phone.”
—Eleanor Rosch, in the introduction to the Revised edition of “The Embodied Mind”
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“There is no good reason for a community to be without money. To be short of money when there’s work to get done is like not having enough inches to build a house. We have the materials, the tools, the space, the time, the skills and the intent to build … but we have no inches today? Why be short of inches? Why be short of money?”
- Excerpt From: Open money manifesto
“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”— Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
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« Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined? »
— Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
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