“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.”
― The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives
― The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
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“Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality
itself.”
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itself.”
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“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Fredrik’s 2024 Year in Books
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