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“Happiness is a by-product, never an objective. It’s an unexpected windfall from a life lived well.”
― The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
― The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
“Within the humanistic psychology framework, the healthy personality is considered one that constantly moves toward freedom, responsibility, self-awareness, meaning, commitment, personal growth, maturity, integration, and change, rather than one that predominantly strives for status, achievement, or even happiness.7”
― Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
― Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
“A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The “you” of five years ago was made from different stuff than the “you” of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the word genetics, observed, “We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.”
― Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
― Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“When trying to understand the interactions of nonhuman organisms, it is easy to flip between these two perspectives: that of the inanimate behavior of preprogrammed robots on the one hand, and that of rich, lived human experience on the other. Framed as brainless organisms, lacking the basic apparatus required to have even a simple kind of “experience,” fungal interactions are no more than automatic responses to a series of biochemical triggers. Yet the mycelium of truffle fungi, like that of most fungal species, actively senses and responds to its surroundings in unpredictable ways.”
― Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
― Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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