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“If you want answers, you don't want life.
If you want method, you don't want life.
If you want security, you don't want life.
If you want goals, you don't want life.
If you don't want life, what is it that you want?”
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If you want method, you don't want life.
If you want security, you don't want life.
If you want goals, you don't want life.
If you don't want life, what is it that you want?”
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“The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to
tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract
ourselves from the present moment, to be entertained.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract
ourselves from the present moment, to be entertained.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Because we’ve transformed the world from a place of scarcity to a place of overwhelming abundance: Drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting . . . the increased numbers, variety, and potency of highly rewarding stimuli today is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“To meditate is to make a complete break with how we “normally” operate, for it is a state free of all cares and concerns, in which there is no competition, no desire to possess or grasp at anything, no intense and anxious struggle, and no hunger to achieve: an ambitionless state where there is neither acceptance nor rejection, neither hope nor fear, a state in which we slowly begin to release all those emotions and concepts that have imprisoned us into the space of natural simplicity.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
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