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Book cover for Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki
Wealth brings great anxiety, while with poverty come fierce resentments. Dependence on others puts you in their power, while care for others will snare you in the worldly attachments of affection. Follow the social rules, and they hem you ...more
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Ziad K. Abdelnour
“We live in an era of smart phones and stupid people.... Go figure.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Dōgen
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.”
― Dōgen

Yoshida Kenkō
“It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful.”
― Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
tags: life

“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
― African Proverb

Yoshida Kenkō
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
― Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

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