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This is what is meant when climate change is called an “existential crisis”—a drama we are now haphazardly improvising between two hellish poles, in which our best-case outcome is death and suffering at the scale of twenty-five Holocausts,
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“What the Yoga People say: None of this is banal, if only you would attend to it.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage”
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“This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: “At the time, no one knew what was coming.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Once, he said to her: "You are like me, you are different from most people. You are Kamala, nothing else, and inside of you, there is a peace and refuge, to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself, as I can also do. Few people have this, and yet all could have it.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real “me” than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is!”
― The Way of Zen
― The Way of Zen
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