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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
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“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
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“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
― The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century
― The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century
“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Jared’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jared’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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341 books
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Biography, Book Club, Food, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Science, and War
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