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“In the end, some problematic leaders are really just followers of the larger system. But a truly, destructively cultish leader is one who wishes to overthrow the system and replace it with something that grants them ultimate power.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“Every day is a loop. Life tries the same as we try with music. Every day is the sun rising, and the sun going down, and the sleep we must sleep. I even like sleep and dreaming now. Every day is life convincing us it’s not a loop. Addiction is that way too.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“The point was that maybe humans thought they were exceptional but they were maybe never anything more than animals, doing anything more than animaling.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“All those years ago. They seemed so good. You could say that about years you couldn't get back, wish for normal when normal seemed to be taken away, even if normal was never all that good in the first place.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“Wake up. It is morning. Have a cup of coffee. Watch the sun come up. Feel as if you are the only person in the whole world seeing it. Know that it was always true that you were the only one seeing the world the way you were seeing the world. Give thanks to the rising sun. Give thanks to the day that was every day, was the sun itself making everything seen and was called the day as a nickname for the big light the sun was sending the world before it took it away.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
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