You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain linked together by cause and effect.
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Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain – that it may perhaps be this is not important – but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the … [ Read more ]
Author: Hermann Hesse | Subject: Uncategorized
Sadly it is not only the force of gravity we get used to as we grow up. The world itself becomes a habit in no time at all. It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world.
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Heraclitus pointed out that the world is characterized by opposites. If we were never ill, we would … [ Read more ]
Author: Jostein Gaarder | Subject: Uncategorized
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the concerns of all humanity.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?
To ignore evil is to become … [ Read more ]
Authors: Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr. | Subject: Uncategorized