“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
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“If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor.”
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
― Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
― Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
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“Dear Friend, Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking and going grand. It’s a treat.”
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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