Reclusion

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We can’t easily change the way we live because we can’t let go of the way we think.

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There are places which give an expansive sense that a place infinitely more enchanting exists beyond them…and then there are places which seem sickened by their very own existence.

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It’s not just the absence of people - true solitude is impossible if there’s either a purpose or pursuit on the mind.

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True growth is less about avoiding regret and more about the ability to handle regret.

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If the constraints we accept are based on the boundaries of our experience, we are thinking with our memory - not our mind.

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The moments that feel like they have superseded death, when death has become meaningless - that’s when someone has really lived.

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Maybe we are search of a heaven

That we are already in

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Hatred of religion usually starts first with the hatred for the religious.

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We give up a lot of our lives emulating the lives of others, who in turn are emulating someone else’s … and so on; no one’s living s life of their own.

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If the suffering seems inordinately disproportionate, your suffering is probably more for others than due to them. You may be feeling worse for others than they do for themselves.

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Mortality never provides a choice; Immortality provides the semblance of one, even to the most pedestrian life.

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Desperation and hope are not too different - they drive us to believe in what we know to be a lie.

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Leave the world; join the universe.

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No one is ever truly alone. There’s always time which is passing and death which is approaching.

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The good life is the one which one would gladly embrace a second time because you truly believe you could make it better.

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It’s both humbling and liberating when one has to ratchet down from wanting to look better to wanting to see better.

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I will lose my mind if I don’t lose my memory. Soon.