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An expression we use in Netherlands is "When someting sounds too good to be true, it will be too good to be true". But not for this book that claims to save the world. The strange thing with this book is that it doesn't tell you how to think, what to
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"Because of the summer holidays I've been reading a lot lately. This time it is even more exiting than the last two times I red it because I have got a bigger understanding now.
Tomorrow, june 24th I will start reading the Dutch translation. I've red some small parts and reading this in my own language touches another (deeper) level." — Aug 11, 2020 03:31AM
"Because of the summer holidays I've been reading a lot lately. This time it is even more exiting than the last two times I red it because I have got a bigger understanding now.
Tomorrow, june 24th I will start reading the Dutch translation. I've red some small parts and reading this in my own language touches another (deeper) level." — Aug 11, 2020 03:31AM
“The playwright George Bernard Shaw also warned of how difficult it is to introduce a new paradigm of thinking — especially one that dares to confront the historically unbearably confronting and off-limits subject of the human condition — when he said that ‘All great truths begin as blasphemies’ (Annajanska, 1919).”
― The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!
― The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!
“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“Bonobos provide the perfect evidence for how our distant ape ancestors became cooperative and loving.”
― The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!
― The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!
“The journalist Richard Neville was frighteningly accurate when, in summarising the desperate state of our species’ situation, he wrote that ‘We are locked in a race between self destruction and self discovery’. ONLY ‘self discovery’ — this reconciling, ameliorating, psychologically healing understanding of ourselves — can save us from ‘self destruction’.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“We can transition from being victims of the human condition to becoming secure, sound, effective managers of our world”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
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