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The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machines, but we do not know how to live with them.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge of the authenticity of being can save us.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge and the most intimate courage can possibly enable us to endure.

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The true paradox is that we become most fully alive at the moment when we cease to live for ourselves alone. It is in the surrender of self that self is found.

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When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive

Death makes human beings seem like very small containers that are packed so densely we can only be aware of a fraction of what's inside us from moment to moment.

1mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our own thoughts.

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How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

What is worthwhile, is friendship… this profound mutual confidence between [two people], and this joy of knowing that the other exists.

1mo ago

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a form of rebellion.

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What Happens When We Die

Whatever our beliefs, these sensemaking playthings of the mind, when the moment of material undoing comes, we — creatures of moment and matter — simply cannot fathom how something as exquisite as the universe of thought and feeling inside us can vanish into nothingness.

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What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live

life stares mutely back at us, immense and indifferent, having abled us with opposable thumbs and handicapped us with a consciousness capable of self-reference that renders us dissatisfied with the banality of mere survival.

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How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

Perhaps the sharpest, most recurrent shock of being alive is the realization that no one can give you a ready-made answer — not your parents or your teachers, not scripture or Stoicism, not psychotherapy or psilocybin, not the old dharma teacher or the new pope.

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