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“Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”
― Abraham Maslow

“Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.”
― Abraham Maslow, Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation

“Longing for Heaven won’t help you to make the most of this lifetime, the one you have now.

Especially if you’re interested in Spiritual Enlightenment, don’t treat this precious human life like some pathetic kind of consolation prize.”
― Rose Rosetree, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
― E.B. White

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

“Modern virtues are self-referential. There's a relentless circling back to the individual's subjective state of being. But we are of no use to ourselves or anyone else if we cultivate our virtues in splendid isolation. The wellbeing of the group is a necessary precondition to all and any individual needs, ethics and choices.

The elevation of vulnerability as a virtue creates an environment increasingly antithetical to free speech. If my ideas are even remotely likely to offend your feelings, then there is enormous pressure on me not to express them.

The present-day promotion of feelings over facts is a clear danger to democracy.

Neoliberalism sees your earnest desire to live by 21st-century virtues, and promptly, efficiently and shamelessly monetises it.”
― Lucinda Holdforth

“The world of fantasy presents a conceptually perfect holding environment who are just leaving the more concrete stages of cognitive processing.... as fluent comprehending readers learn to enter into the lives of imagined heroes and heroines, along the Mississippi or through a wardrobe portal.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Indeed, as some historians observe, the changing relationships of readers to text over time can be seen as one index of the history of thought.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Comprehension processes [for young readers] grow.... [when] they leave the surface layers of text to explore the wondrous terrain that lies beneath it.

The reading expert Richard Vacca describes this shift as a development from "fluent decoders" to "strategic readers"--"readers who know how to activate prior knowledge before, during and after reading, to decide what's important in a text"....”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“What some folks might call, "Feeling relaxed and mellow" is NOT Spiritual Enlightenment.”
― Rose Rosetree, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day