Settling in relationships isn’t the worst way to go through life. It’s fairly painless and often predictable. There is some value in pain avoidance and predictability, but it is far from how you are designed to live. More than anything in
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“So, according to Vedanta, the central doctrine of Hinduism, all bodies are the clothes of the one and only Self in its innumerable disguises, and the whole universe is a masquerade ball pretending to be a tragedy and then realizing that it’s a ball.”
― Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
― Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
“Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. He needs real wealth, in the form of a fishing rod, a compass, an outboard motor with gas, and a female companion. But this ingrained and archaic confusion of money with wealth is now the main reason we are not going ahead full tilt with the development of our technological genius for the production of more than adequate food, clothing, housing, and utilities for every person on earth.”
― Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
― Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
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