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The more things we desire and the more we have to do to earn or attain those achievements, the less we actually enjoy our lives—and the less free we are.
“I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything.
Life just happens to them. They get Dy on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.”
― Heretics of Dune
Life just happens to them. They get Dy on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.”
― Heretics of Dune
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.”
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
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“There may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one comes to warm themselves by it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke”
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Bryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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