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Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

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The Doors of Perception

by Aldous Huxley

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The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

by Francis Weller

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“When I was young, I wanted to be knowledgeable, but as I got older, I wanted to be wise. Wise people don’t just possess information; they possess a compassionate understanding of other people. They know about life.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

tags: aging, compassion, empathy, getting-older, knowledge, life, understanding, wisdom

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“Being a parent is to live out such a disjunction between duty and personal freedom—to love a child with one’s entire being, but to preserve something of one’s identity that parenting cannot touch. Nietzsche explains how this divided self is not only possible but inevitable.”
― John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

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“Experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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