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"I’m lost. There’s a few storylines that we’re following in each new chapter. i want to say that this is one of those broken timelines where the past, present and future are being presented in a non-chronological. i’m a bit lost." — Apr 27, 2026 03:31PM
"I’m lost. There’s a few storylines that we’re following in each new chapter. i want to say that this is one of those broken timelines where the past, present and future are being presented in a non-chronological. i’m a bit lost." — Apr 27, 2026 03:31PM
Terrible as it was, his experience in Auschwitz reinforced what was already one of his key ideas: Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.”
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
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“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal fact what is experienced as literal truth: human life is one and all men are members of one another. And this insight is spiritual and it is the hard core of religious experience.”
― The Luminous Darkness
― The Luminous Darkness
“[T]he absolutely true...exists, and i know what it is. The problem is that you know too, and that we know different things, which puts us...armed with universal judgements that are irreconcilable, all dressed up and nowhere to go for authoritative adjudication.”
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NewGround- Muslim-Jewish Partnership Book Club
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NewGround began in 2006 as a response to the climate of tension and mistrust between Jews and Muslims in Los Angeles. But more importantly, NewGround ...more
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