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“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.”

“It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”

Soul Pain Depression Crush Visible Hopelessness Deliverance

Author:William Styron

“I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.”

Way Needs Soul States Motivational Creative Drug Activity Ultimate Overcoming Unions Various Crush Conformity Alcoholism Separateness Overwork Interpersonal

Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.”

World Humans Soul Struggle Scene Roots Weight Human Life Crush Weed Fearful Magnificent Pitiful Slime Weight Of The World

Author:Eiji Yoshikawa