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You boarded, you set sail, you've made the passage. Time to disembark. If it's for another life, well, there's nowhere without gods on that side either. If to nothingness, then you no longer have to put up with pain and pleasure, or go on dancing attendance on this battered crate, your body—so much inferior to that which serves it. One is mind and spirit, the other earth and garbage.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (170)
1d ago

Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpse once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone.

1mo ago

“I just thought this was super unacceptable When you’re a kid you’re like, ‘Oh, adults can always fix everything. And the realization that that wasn’t the case, and we all have these ticking time bombs inside of us, and that one day you could just get this diagnosis and that’s it? I kind of had an existential breakdown, honestly.

1mo ago

Animated by electrical impulses and temporal interactions of matter, our finite minds simply cannot grasp a timeless and infinite inanimacy — a void beyond being.

1mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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