“Can’t I just speak ‘friend’ and enter?” the Wonk asked plaintively.
“Like a business, like a child, inner peace will flower only from the sunshine of your focalizing effort.”
― Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom and Poetry of Gandhi, Thoreau, the Buddha, and Others
― Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom and Poetry of Gandhi, Thoreau, the Buddha, and Others
“There are entrenched ideas (both positive and negative) about what the internet is, conceded even by those who disagree with the veracity of the assertions: the way it refigures politics and social organization, the degree to which it alters the experience of adolescence, its contradictory ability to connect and estrange simultaneously, and its overall acceleration of the news cycle.”
― The Nineties: A Book
― The Nineties: A Book
“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“He was seeking immortality, which is a terrible thing to seek. It is not seeking anything, but rather avoiding the unavoidable.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Modern people worry about smartphone addiction, despite the fact that landlines exercised much more control over the owner.”
― The Nineties: A Book
― The Nineties: A Book
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