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There is no word for such a catastrophe. It would liquefy the surface of the planet, vaporizing the oceans and sterilizing everything from the mantle up. The world, for us and any possible creature that might ever evolve in the future to ...more
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Wiesław Myśliwski
“Mimo, że jak teraz, jesienią, dzień wydawałby się coraz krótszy i krótszy, to coraz bardziej mi się dłuży. Nieraz gdy się rano zbudzę i pomyślę, że muszę do wieczora żyć, mam wrażenie, jakby to było znów od urodzenia do śmierci. Nie wiem, czy pan kiedyś coś takiego odczuwał, ale jakby coraz trudniej było przeżyć dzień.”
Wiesław Myśliwski, Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli

Brian C. Muraresku
“Participants in our study often described this experience with the newfound knowledge that consciousness survives bodily death—that we are not only our bodies—which is a profound gift to a person with a body that is failing, and will soon stop functioning due to advanced disease. It has been described as a transcendence of past, present, future. Timelessness in the moment. I’ve heard participants speak about feeling “outside of time.” The insight that we are not bound by the material world is a powerful one. It is psychologically, existentially and spiritually liberating.”
Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

Anna Lembke
“The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for it's own sake, leads to anhedonia. Which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind.”
Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Brian C. Muraresku
“Without the wine, there is no Dionysus. And without the Eucharist, there is no Christianity.”
Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

Brian C. Muraresku
“Isn’t it strange that the Christian holy family—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—is an all-male ensemble? And isn’t it even stranger that the only woman worshipped alongside the Trinity never becomes a grandmother?”
Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

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