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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green offers a thoughtful look at anxiety and friendship. The story follows Aza as she navigates her thoughts while reconnecting with an old friend. The relationships feel real, and the novel handles mental health wit
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“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!
“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!
“We humans don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“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
“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
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