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“After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I had come to the conclusion that the primary purpose of the human resources department was to facilitate the company objectives at the expense of the employees.”

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“Spiritual practices in any tradition, including mindfulness in its many forms, are meant to help you live what is yours to live, not make you rise above it. These tools are meant to help you feel companioned inside your grief. They're meant to give you a tiny bit of breathing room inside what is wholly unbearable. That's not at all the same thing as making your pain go away.”

Humanity Spirituality Grief Healing Mindfulness Human Connection Grief And Loss Connectedness

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“As the feeling of an internal power of self-determination elevates the man above the unlimited dominion of impulse and the instincts of nature; in a word, absolves him from nature's guardianship, so the necessity, which alongside of her he must recognize, is no mere natural necessity, but one lying beyond the world of sense in the abyss of infinitude; consequently it exhibits itself as the unfathomable power of Destiny. Hence this power extends also to the world of gods: for the Grecian gods are mere powers of nature; and although immeasurably higher than mortal man, yet, compared with infinitude, they are on an equal footing with himself.”

Destiny Human Gods

Book:Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

“But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of—that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

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Book:Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“If any authority should be able to justify itself, if any authority should be able to answer the question "by what right?" with something more than the circular assertion of its own power, it is the authority that claims to be perfectly rational, perfectly just, and the source of all goodness. And yet, it is precisely this authority that most often answers the question 'Why?' with 'Because I AM.”

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Author:Shamsaddin Amanov

“...Cuando os encontréis con algo que tiende a ser humano pero todavía no lo es, o que había sido humano en el pasado y ya no lo es, o debería ser humano y no lo es, no lo perdáis de vista y buscad vuestra hacha.”

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Book:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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