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“Take your hand from the box, young human, and look at it.”
Fighting against raw animal instincts to flee from pain and instead to control these base impulses
“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
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“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
“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
“Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees;”
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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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