Michael

“Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Remember, saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“I therefore cite Albert Einstein, so much misrepresented, once again. He is addressing a correspondent who is trouble by yet another of those many misrepresentations:

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but expressed it clearly. if something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Years later he answered another query by stating:

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough”
― Andrew Collier, Marx: A Beginner's Guide