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“In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness”
― Thoughts Are Things
― Thoughts Are Things
“This is a mood, however, that comes to me now, I thank God, more rarely. I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books,—bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.”
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
“Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past”
― Thoughts Are Things
― Thoughts Are Things
“...thoughts aren't the problem. Problems only develop when thoughts no longer arise from or refer to actual experience. That's when thoughts start ossifying into their own bureaucratic institutions, becoming assumptions and dogma.”
― One City: A Declaration of Interdependence
― One City: A Declaration of Interdependence
“Every time we prepare food we interrupt a life cycle. We pull up a carrot or kill a crab- or maybe just stop the mold that's growing on a wedge of cheese. We make meals with those ingredients and in doing so we give life to something else. It's a basic equation and if we pretend it doesn't exist, we're likely to miss the other important lesson which is to give respect to both sides of the equation.”
― The School of Essential Ingredients
― The School of Essential Ingredients
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