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“What is education? I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself,”
― The Kierkegaard Collection
― The Kierkegaard Collection
“Quiet the noise and tune in, recognize the heartbeat that pounds away at your chest. This is life. A precious gift we receive from our ancestors; a mercy that leads us to days forward. Your existence was not by coincidence but by calculated orchestration.”
― Spirits Come from Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices
― Spirits Come from Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices
“People find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“I understand then why the doctrines that explain everything to me also debilitate me at the same time. They relieve me of the weight of my own life, and yet I must carry it alone.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“If you can finally go to the bathroom wherever you find one, if you can finally order a cup of coffee and drink it wherever coffee is available, but you cannot follow your heart-you cannot respect the response of your own honest body in the world-then how much of what kind of freedom does any one of us possess?
Or, conversely, if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force?”
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
Or, conversely, if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force?”
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
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