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Veronica Sadler
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Recognizing what needs require attending to, versus what needs our ego wants to overindulge or ignore, begins with presence in the body.
“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“A secular morality teaches that what man thinks, says, and does lives after him and influences for good or ill future generations. This is a higher, nobler, and greater, incentive to righteousness than any life of personal reward or fear of punishment in a future life.”
― The Necessity Of Atheism
― The Necessity Of Atheism
“A man may not know what will happen as a result of other people’s actions or as the result of unknown causes, but he always knows all possible results of his own actions.”
― Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
― Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
“Secularism can no longer be seen as a mere philosophical word or ideology of the books. Let me give you a simple example. If you are thirsty and you drink a glass of water, is that act of drinking water a philosophy, or is it a plain, ordinary, necessary act of preservation? Likewise, secularism is no more a philosophy, than drinking water is. Secularism is an act of preserving humanity in the humans.”
― Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
― Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.”
― Symbols of Transformation
― Symbols of Transformation
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