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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal

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For me, understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it. The central issue of atheism, which is the (non)existence of God, strikes me as monumentally uninteresting. What do we gain by getting in a tizzy about the ...more

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“According to the Gita, these are the higher values and qualities: fearlessness, purity of mind, gratitude, service and charity, acceptance, performing sacrifice, deep study, austerity, straightforwardness, nonviolence, truthfulness, absence of anger, renunciation, perspective, restraint from fault finding, compassion toward all living beings, satisfaction, gentleness/kindness, integrity, determination.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

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