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Darshana Unnikrishnan

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Mon premier code de la route: apprends les règles de circulation et de sécurité en t'amusant !

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Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know

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Art History Explained to Children

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“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

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“Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
― Hettie Jones

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“Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.”
― Gurcharan Das

tags: belief, dharma, order

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“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
― Joanna Lumley

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“Despite the many occasions when its characters feel frustrated before the weight of circumstances, and despite blaming their feeling of impotence on daiva, 'fate', moral autonomy shines through in the epic. Because they have some freedom to choose they can be praised when they follow dharma or blamed when they follow adharma. At the moment of making a decision they become conscious of their freedom, and it is this perception of autonomy that gives them the ability to lead authentic moral lives.”
― Gurcharan Das, The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma

tags: autonomy, dharma, freedom, initiative, morality

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