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“I'm attracted to intelligence. Don't get me wrong, a perfectly crafted body will certainly get my attention, but I'll get bored with it. I always do. I need you to outsmart me. Make me feel like I could learn from you, grow with you. Do that and you have me forever.”
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“Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters. You focus on the word, which is just the tiniest part, really, the tip of an iceberg. I’ve never been that comfortable with words—I always think in pictures, express myself with images.
- Alicia Berenson’s Diary”
― The Silent Patient
- Alicia Berenson’s Diary”
― The Silent Patient
“When we invented fire, we messed up repeatedly, then invented the fire extinguisher. With more powerful technologies such as nuclear weapons, synthetic biology and strong artificial intelligence, we should instead plan ahead and aim to get things right the first time, because it may be the only chance we will get. Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let’s make sure that wisdom wins.”
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“Snow falls on a quiet street and then night falls, the street becomes ice cold! Find a street like this and drink that awesome silence there! Anyone who opens the doors of his mind to silence will witness that the door of silence in turn opens to wisdom!”
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“It’s like a dance. And we have to give each being space to dance their dance. Everything is dancing; even the molecules inside the cells are dancing. But we make our lives so heavy. We have these incredibly heavy burdens we carry with us like rocks in a big rucksack. We think that carrying this big heavy rucksack is our security; we think it grounds us. We don’t realize the freedom, the lightness of just dropping it off, letting it go. That doesn’t mean giving up relationships; it doesn’t mean giving up one’s profession, or one’s family,or one’s home. It has nothing to do with that; it’s not an external change. It’s an internal change. It’s a change from holding on tightly to holding very lightly.
– Tenzin Palmo
from the book "Into The Heart Of Life”
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– Tenzin Palmo
from the book "Into The Heart Of Life”
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Thapa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Thapa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
365 books
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159 friends
163 books
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877 friends
79 books
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77 friends
1,711 books
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141 friends
1 book
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1 book
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158 friends
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