“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. ~ Aldous Huxley”
― Waking Up: A Parent's Guide to Mindful Awareness and Connection
― Waking Up: A Parent's Guide to Mindful Awareness and Connection
“I don’t know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn’t want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.”
― Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
― Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
“Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that’s philosophy. People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to believe in God.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“For now there is only the darkness expanding and deepening, deepening into light; there is only this final peace, this consciousness of being no more separate, this illumination . . .”
― Eyeless in Gaza
― Eyeless in Gaza
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