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There are 300 maxims, each with an explanatory paragraph. I'll have to research if this style of "pocket mirror" small books began before Gracian's time. My current game is to read one a day or so, in random order. This translation is in the public d
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“It's important in life not to be well-thought-of.
I mean to become so dependent of being well-thought-of you don't do the things and think the thoughts that make a person not well-thought-of. 196-7”
― Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening
I mean to become so dependent of being well-thought-of you don't do the things and think the thoughts that make a person not well-thought-of. 196-7”
― Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening
“We know how to do this. And what's more, we crave doing it, feeling more alive with every gift exchange. 44
We live in the tension between what is and what is possible. 47
The Honorable Harvest
Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them.
Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for life.
Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer.
Never take the first. Never take the last.
Take only what you need.
Take only that which is given.
Never take more than half. Leave some for others.
Harvest in a way that minimizes harm.
Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken.
Share.
Give thanks for what you have been given.
Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken.
Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever. 64-65”
― The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
We live in the tension between what is and what is possible. 47
The Honorable Harvest
Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them.
Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for life.
Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer.
Never take the first. Never take the last.
Take only what you need.
Take only that which is given.
Never take more than half. Leave some for others.
Harvest in a way that minimizes harm.
Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken.
Share.
Give thanks for what you have been given.
Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken.
Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever. 64-65”
― The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
“A life like mine annoys most people, they go to their jobs every day, attend to things, give orders, pummel typewriters, and get two or three weeks off every year, and it vexes them to see someone else not bothering to do these things and yet getting away with it, not starving, being lucky as they call it. 5 - 6”
― Open to the Public: New & Collected Stories
― Open to the Public: New & Collected Stories
“Emotions are not built-in but made from more basic parts. They are not universal but vary from culture to culture. They are not triggered, you create them. They emerge as a combination of the physical properties of your body, a flexible brain that wires itself to whatever environment it develops in, and your culture and upbringing, which provide that environment.' 20. Quoting Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain 2017, xii.”
― Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel
― Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel
“How marvelous to live long enough to escape your past. 196
Finding instruction in irritation is like faking an orgasm. 58”
― Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening
Finding instruction in irritation is like faking an orgasm. 58”
― Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening
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