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The glory of acquisition starts to dim with use, eventually changing to boredom as the item no longer elicits even a bit of excitement. This is the pattern of everything in our lives. No matter how much we wish for something, over time it
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“No material object, no matter how beautiful or precious it is, can give us the feeling of being loved, because our deeper identity, our true character, is rooted in the subjective nature of the mind.”
― My Spiritual Journey: Personal Reflections, Teachings, and Talks
― My Spiritual Journey: Personal Reflections, Teachings, and Talks
“The new cultures and terms like “neuroqueer” and “neuroatypical”—terms from autistics and other psychologically stigmatized groups who are now challenging the concept that they are “disordered”—allow what was once a designated minority community to declassify themselves from the social stigma that disempowered and dehumanized them.”
― Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture
― Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture
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