Nov 2, 2017
Religion is for people who fear hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve been there.
— David Bowie
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Religion is for people who fear hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve been there.
— David Bowie
An important thing to consider about his experience, unf*king himself, ability to recover — in its largest part his power is not only in his current spirituality, but in his intelligence, literacy, which prepped and propped his spirituality. Most of “lay” addicts simply lack these faculties, which makes them almost incurable, if it’s not for the influence from those really caring around them. Who are also rarity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YSfRyne7IY&feature=share
"THE SCANDAL OF PREDICTION"
— from "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto)" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The ancients knew very well that the only way to understand events was to cause them."
— from "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto)" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"We expect places and products to be less attractive than in marketing brochures, but we never forgive humans for being worse than their first impressions." — from "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto)" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — “stupid us”