“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“I felt free and therefore I was free.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don’t look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by. Trails are like that: you’re floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you’re struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak… just like life.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
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