Kuba Adamów
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“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Sin in the conventional theological and secular sense is a concept within the authoritarian structure, and this structure belongs to the having mode of existence. Our human center does not lie in ourselves, but in the authority to which we submit. We do not arrive at well-being by our own productive activity, but by passive obedience and the ensuing approval by the authority. We have a leader (secular or spiritual, king/ queen or God) in whom we have faith; we have security … as long as we are—nobody. That the submission is not necessarily conscious as such, that it can be mild or severe, that the psychic and social structure need not be totally authoritarian, but may be only partially so, must not blind us to the fact that we live in the mode of having to the degree that we internalize the authoritarian structure of our society.”
― To Have or To Be?
― To Have or To Be?
“River's song is the song of songs, sung in spirals and stars and roars and other notes beyond hearing...”
― Is a River Alive?
― Is a River Alive?
“He recalled another thing the old woman had said about a world being the sum of many things—the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns—the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now. And he wondered: What is the now?”
― Dune
― Dune
“This moment right here will never repeat itself, and is endlessly profound. It may appear undemanding, but it demands your full presence. Be wholly in this moment, give yourself wholly. No rushing through, no looking back to what is now in the past; just being here is divine, for this moment will never flow again.”
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