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“The point of life has little to do with the getting and spending that occupies the greater portion of our days. If we want to know the value of life—the real value, not the monetary or social value—we have to wake up in the middle of the night and see what is happening in the dark. Are there dreams and visions? Are there symbols and signs? Is the night palpable with hopes and longings, pregnant with intimations and desires? Can we hear the peepers in the woods? The quiet of the snowfall? The rise and fall of someone’s breath? Or is our impulse to turn on the lights, watch television, or medicate ourselves back into unconsciousness?”
― Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
― Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
“Every organized religion created after the dawn of agriculture placed a premium on human destiny. Thus, every religion in the world today, with the exception of those rare outliers among indigenous peoples, was created to answer a question the very asking of which betrays a bias so vast we can scarcely see around it: What is the meaning of human life?”
― Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
― Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
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