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Lao Tzu: “In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
We are used to forget what’s essential in our everyday life and routine. But that sentence is what a believe is the most important in life! Plain and simple!
“Yet most of today’s cultures are based on imperial legacies. If empires are by definition bad, what does that say about us?”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who founded the Cynical school, lived in a barrel. When Alexander the Great once visited Diogenes as he was relaxing in the sun, and asked if there were anything he might do for him, the Cynic answered the all-powerful conqueror, ‘Yes, there is something you can do for me. Please move a little to the side. You are blocking the sunlight.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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