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A thought experiment from the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

The Buddhists say that wisdom may be attained by reaching the three marks. The first is an understanding of the absence of self. The second is an understanding of the impermanence of all things. The third is an understanding of the unsatisfactory nature of ordinary experience.

He is the worst kind of bureaucrat--low-level and long-serving, motivated by frustration.

"Next to arrive, from a waitress killed in a highway accident, is the opinion that what they call country music these days is not country music at all but pop music with a twang and too much cologne. "

"there's nothing angrier than a pawn that doesn't know what way he's supposed to be facing"

"I was sick of being a patchwork of puzzle pieces. Parts of this and bits of that. I was one color but not one thing. I wanted to be perceived, to look and sound and act, like I felt inside. Like a MoFo."

"And with this consciousness along with physical pain, along with terror, he had to go to bed and often not sleep from pain for the better part of the night. And the next morning he had to get up, dress, go to court, talk, write, and if he did not go, stay at home with the same twenty four hours in a day, every one of which was torture." 👌

I am desperate to escape the sour smell of fear that has settled like ash over everything.

I was no match for him and his words that lodged like quills and would not be shaken loose.