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Laozi’s wisdom isn’t concerned with your goals, your career, or even your happiness. It’s concerned with something far simpler, and far deeper: how to be a human being, at peace, right where you are.
“Yard, sacrificing buildings in the fire’s path, to finally halt the blaze, at great cost to life and of course, more importantly, property.”
― Remember You Will Die
― Remember You Will Die
“This perpetual daylight has affected us in ways we will not be able to recognize for years, decades, centuries. If we cannot choose between darkness and lightness, what other choices are lost? If this is progress, we say nay to progress.”
― Remember You Will Die
― Remember You Will Die
“Cognitive dissonance is the mental toll caused by conflicting information and causes humans a great deal of distress because they have trouble containing multitudes.”
― Remember You Will Die
― Remember You Will Die
“Welcome! There can be no meaning in a dying world.”
― Remember You Will Die
― Remember You Will Die
“We are lonely drops of water with nowhere to escape, so we try to find solace in false meaning,” said Rosenberg at a poorly attended retrospective of her work at P.S. 1 in fall 2000. “Innovation is our god, growth our religion, and it appears nothing will keep us from searching ever outward, ever upward, as we grow lonelier and sadder.”
― Remember You Will Die
― Remember You Will Die
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