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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...
Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
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Bob Moorehead (Words Aptly Spoken)
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Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.
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Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
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Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.
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Marcel Proust (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower)
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The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.
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Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments)
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We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we donโt have to stay down.
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Steve Goodier
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...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She must find a way to preserve a sense of trust in people who are untrustworthy, safety in a situation that is unsafe, control in a situation that is terrifyingly unpredictable, power in a situation of helplessness. Unable to care for or protect herself, she must compensate for the failures of adult care and protection with the only means at her disposal, an immature system of psychological defenses.
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Judith Lewis Herman (Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror)
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There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.
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Anne Brontรซ (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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Jane Austen
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Womanโs role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I donโt mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fabricate. She must descend into the real womb and expose its secrets and its labyrinths. She must describe it as the city of Fez, with its Arabian Nights gentleness, tranquility and mystery. She must describe the voracious moods, the desires, the worlds contained in each cell of it. For the womb has dreams. It is not as simple as the good earth. I believe at times that man created art out of fear of exploring woman. I believe woman stuttered about herself out of fear of what she had to say. She covered herself with taboos and veils. Man invented a woman to suit his needs. He disposed of her by identifying her with nature and then paraded his contemptuous domination of nature. But woman is not nature only.
She is the mermaid with her fish-tail dipped in the unconscious.
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Anaรฏs Nin
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As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tis-sues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
And so on.Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done. If all writers would do that, then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Breakfast of Champions)
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Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.
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Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust)
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...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.
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Marcel Proust (Sodom and Gomorrah)
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There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. You think you know yourself when you know what you are. But you never know who you are. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot. See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of yourself in terms of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Donโt be too lazy to think.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Do you know about the spoons? Because you should. The Spoon Theory was created by a friend of mine, Christine Miserandino, to explain the limits you have when you live with chronic illness. Most healthy people have a seemingly infinite number of spoons at their disposal, each one representing the energy needed to do a task. You get up in the morning. Thatโs a spoon. You take a shower. Thatโs a spoon. You work, and play, and clean, and love, and hate, and thatโs lots of damn spoonsย โฆ but if you are young and healthy you still have spoons left over as you fall asleep and wait for the new supply of spoons to be delivered in the morning. But if you are sick or in pain, your exhaustion changes you and the number of spoons you have. Autoimmune disease or chronic pain like I have with my arthritis cuts down on your spoons. Depression or anxiety takes away even more. Maybe you only have six spoons to use that day. Sometimes you have even fewer. And you look at the things you need to do and realize that you donโt have enough spoons to do them all. If you clean the house you wonโt have any spoons left to exercise. You can visit a friend but you wonโt have enough spoons to drive yourself back home. You can accomplish everything a normal person does for hours but then you hit a wall and fall into bed thinking, โI wish I could stop breathing for an hour because itโs exhausting, all this inhaling and exhaling.โ And then your husband sees you lying on the bed and raises his eyebrow seductively and you say, โNo. I canโt have sex with you today because there arenโt enough spoons,โ and he looks at you strangely because that sounds kinky, and not in a good way. And you know you should explain the Spoon Theory so he wonโt get mad but you donโt have the energy to explain properly because you used your last spoon of the morning picking up his dry cleaning so instead you just defensively yell: โI SPENT ALL MY SPOONS ON YOUR LAUNDRY,โ and he says, โWhat theย โฆ You canโt pay for dry cleaning with spoons. What is wrong with you?โ Now youโre mad because this is his fault too but youโre too tired to fight out loud and so you have the argument in your mind, but it doesnโt go well because youโre too tired to defend yourself even in your head, and the critical internal voices take over and youโre too tired not to believe them. Then you get more depressed and the next day you wake up with even fewer spoons and so you try to make spoons out of caffeine and willpower but that never really works. The only thing that does work is realizing that your lack of spoons is not your fault, and to remind yourself of that fact over and over as you compare your fucked-up life to everyone elseโs just-as-fucked-up-but-not-as-noticeably-to-outsiders lives. Really, the only people you should be comparing yourself to would be people who make you feel better by comparison. For instance, people who are in comas, because those people have no spoons at all and you donโt see anyone judging them. Personally, I always compare myself to Galileo because everyone knows heโs fantastic, but he has no spoons at all because heโs dead. So technically Iโm better than Galileo because all Iโve done is take a shower and already Iโve accomplished more than him today. If we were having a competition Iโd have beaten him in daily accomplishments every damn day of my life. But Iโm not gloating because Galileo canโt control his current spoon supply any more than I can, and if Galileo couldnโt figure out how to keep his dwindling spoon supply I think itโs pretty unfair of me to judge myself for mine. Iโve learned to use my spoons wisely. To say no. To push myself, but not too hard. To try to enjoy the amazingness of life while teetering at the edge of terror and fatigue.
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Jenny Lawson (Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things)
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There have been times when I felt that I might die of loneliness. People sometimes say they might die of boredom, that they're dying for a cup of tea, but for me, dying of loneliness is not a hyperbole. When I feel like that, my head drops and my shoulders slump and I ache, I physically ache, for human contact - I truly feel that I might tumble to the ground and pass away if someone doesn't hold me, touch me. I don't mean a lover - this recent madness aside, I had long since given up on any notion that another person might love me that way - but simply a human being. The scalp massage at the hairdresser, the flu jab I had last winter - the only time I experience touch is from people whom I am paying, and they are almost wearing disposable gloves at the time. I'm merely stating the facts.
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Gail Honeyman (Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine)
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If a person who believes in the label โGlobal Warmingโ hears someone else say that they donโt believe in Global Warming, they automatically think the person is for polluting the planet. What a childish mindset. Itโs only powerful individuals who are for polluting the planet because they can save a lot of money when dumping their waste in nature instead of disposing of it properly, or by using dirty fossil fuels for energy instead of cleaner options. All those powerful individuals sternly agree that Global Warming is a problem when addressing the public, but behind closed doors, they count the money theyโve collected from imposing Global Warming taxes on their competitors and continue to pollute themselves. The biggest companies in the world that are pushing this agenda continue to pollute the planet and arenโt paying any taxes themselves. Theyโre using Global Warming as a front.
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Jasun Ether (The Beasts of Success)
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The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. "I am no such thing," it would say; "I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.
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William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience)
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My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my deserting you, unless you give me cause.'
I never, never will, sir,' interposed Oliver.
I hope not,' rejoined the old gentleman; 'I do not think you ever will. I have been deceived before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you, nevertheless, and more strongly interested in your behalf than I can well account for, even to myself. The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
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Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?
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Ray Bradbury
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The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented, or pulled apart as we wished.
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Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher)
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Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent every person is to us like Janus, presenting to us the face that we like if that person leaves us, the repellent face if we know him or her to be perpetually at our disposal.
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Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7])
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...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more itโs beautiful. The car, the furniture, the wife, the childrenโeverything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today isโshopping. Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didnโt know what to do with himselfโheโd go to church, start a revolutionโsomething. Today youโre unhappy? Canโt figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping....
...If they would close the stores for six months in this country there would be from coast to coast a regular massacre.
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Arthur Miller
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For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery depends very much on the objects and persons around us. On this account, nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
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Margaret opened the door and went in with the straight, fearless, dignified presence habitual to her. She felt no awkwardness; she had too much of society for that. Here was a person come on business to her father; and, as she was one who had shown himself obliging, she was disposed to treat him with full measure of civility. Mr. Thornton was a good deal more surprised and discomfited than she. Instead of a quiet, middle-aged clergyman, a young lady came forward with frank dignity,-a young lady of a different type to most of those he was in the habit of seeing. (...) He had heard that Mr. Hale had a daughter, but he had imagined that she was a little girl.
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Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South)
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And of course they used her like a disposable object, without regret or apology, because thatโs what privilege isโthe license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that youโre a good person.
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Tom Perrotta (Mrs. Fletcher)
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No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a personโs eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of anotherโs soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.
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Anne Brontรซ (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
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The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration.
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Jackie Wang (Carceral Capitalism)
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The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as much as the respect it holds for the mystery. We retain the child in us to the extent that we honor the mystery. Therefore, children have open, wide-awake eyes, because they know that they are surrounded by the mystery. They are not yet finished with this world; they still donโt know how to struggle along and avoid the mystery, as we do. We destroy the mystery because we sense that here we reach the boundary of our being, because we want to be lord over everything and have it at our disposal, and thatโs just what we cannot do with the mysteryโฆ. Living without mystery means knowing nothing of the mystery of our own life, nothing of the mystery of another person, nothing of the mystery of the world; it means passing over our own hidden qualities and those of others and the world. It means remaining on the surface, taking the world seriously only to the extent that it can be calculated and exploited, and not going beyond the world of calculation and exploitation. Living without mystery means not seeing the crucial processes of life at all and even denying them.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas)
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How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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...the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom: for in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom: for liberty is, to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be, where there is no law: but freedom is not, as we are told, a liberty for every man to do what he lists: (for who could be free, when every other man's humour might domineer over him?) but a liberty to dispose, and order as he lists, his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property, within the allowance of those laws under which he is, and therein not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own.
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John Locke
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There is such a thing as looking through a personโs eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of anotherโs soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.โ โThen
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Anne Brontรซ (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
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Sect. 4. TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
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John Locke (Second Treatise of Government)
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While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.
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Ulysses S. Grant (Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes)
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Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
โIn true love
The distinction between loved ones and loved ones
does not exist.
Your pain is my pain.
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
My happiness is your happiness.
Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ,โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
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๋์๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฒ ํ๊ฐ์ ํํผํ๋งคโณโ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
ํํผ ํ๋๋ค ํํผ์ฝ๋๋ค ํํผ๊ตฌ์
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Intuition is not to be consulted once and then forgotten. It is not disposable. It is to be consulted at all steps along the way, whether the woman's work be clashing with a demon in the interior, or completing a task in the outer world. It does not matter whether a woman's concerns and aspirations are personal or global. Before all else, every action begins with strengthening the spirit.
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Clarissa Pinkola Estรฉs (Women Who Run With the Wolves)
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Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
โIn true love
The distinction between loved ones and loved ones
does not exist.
Your pain is my pain.
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
My happiness is your happiness.
Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ,โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
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๋์๋ฌ์ฌํํผ์ ํ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฒ ํ๊ฐ์ ํํผํ๋งคโณโ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
ํํผ ํ๋๋ค ํํผ์ฝ๋๋ค ํํผ๊ตฌ์
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Because we cannot discover God's throne in the sky with a radiotelescope or establish (for certain) that a beloved father or mother is still about in a more or less corporeal form, people assume that such ideas are "not true." I would rather say that they are not "true" enough, for these are conceptions of a kind that have accompanied human life from prehistoric times, and that still break through into consciousness at any provocation.
Modern man may assert that he can dispose with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. Or he may even regret the loss of his convictions. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no means of proving immortality), why should we bother about evidence? Even if we did not know by reason our need for salt in our food, we should nonetheless profit from its use. We might argue that the use of salt is a mere illusion of taste or a superstition; but it would still contribute to our well-being. Why, then, should we deprive ourselves of views that would prove helpful in crises and would give a meaning to our existence?
And how do we know that such ideas are not true? Many people would agree with me if I stated flatly that such ideas are probably illusions. What they fail to realize is that the denial is as impossible to "prove" as the assertion of religious belief. We are entirely free to choose which point of view we take; it will in any case be an arbitrary decision.
There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be useful. Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. He can stand the most incredible hardships when he is convinced that they make sense; he is crushed when, on top of all his misfortunes, he has to admit that he is taking part in a "tale told by an idiot."
It is the role of religious symbols to give a meaning to the life of man. The Pueblo Indians believe that they are the sons of Father Sun, and this belief endows their life with a perspective (and a goal) that goes far beyond their limited existence. It gives them ample space for the unfolding of personality and permits them a full life as complete persons. Their plight is infinitely more satisfactory than that of a man in our own civilization who knows that he is (and will remain) nothing more than an underdog with no inner meaning to his life.
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C.G. Jung (Man and His Symbols)
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I have been deceived, before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you, nevertheless; and I am more interested in your behalf than I can well account for, even to myself. The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, forever,on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them...
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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
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I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end.
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their madeup tales.
And so on.
Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done.
If all writers would do that, then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Breakfast of Champions)
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The more aged I become, the more I tend to the view that evil is evil, mental illness or no. Weโre all more or less disposed to evil actions, but our disposition cannot exonerate us. For heavenโs sake, weโre all sick with personality disorders. And itโs our actions that define how sick we are.
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Jo Nesbรธ (The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7))
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Maybe, despite ideology, politics, and history, a genuine catastrophe is always personal bathos at the core. Life canโt be impugned for any failure to trivialize people. You have to take your hat off to life for the techniques at its disposal to strip a man of his significance and empty him totally of his pride.
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Philip Roth (I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2))
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What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal. The intimacy between mother and child is not sustaining and healthy. The child learns to exploit his mother's accessibility, badgering her with questions and demands which are not of any real consequence to him, embarrassing her in public, blackmailing her into buying sweets and carrying him.
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Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch)
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It can be hidden only in complete silence and perfect passivity, but its disclosure can almost never be achieved as a willful purpose, as though one possessed and could dispose of this "who" in the same manner he has and can dispose of his qualities. On the contrary, it is more than likely that the "who," which appears so clearly and unmistakably to others, remains hidden from the person himself, like the daimon in Greek religion which accompanies each man throughout his life, always looking over his shoulder from behind and thus visible only to those he encounters. This revelatory quality of speech and action comes to the fore where people are with others and neither for (the doer of good works) nor against them (the criminal) that is, in sheer human togetherness. Although nobody knows whom he reveals when he discloses himself in deed or word, he must be willing to risk the disclosure.
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Hannah Arendt (The Human Condition)
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The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense...When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
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Frรฉdรฉric Bastiat
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์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
์๋ก๋งํฅ ๋ฌ์์์ฐ ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๋งคํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ตฌ๋งค์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค
์ ํฌ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊น๋ํ์
์ฒด์
๋๋ค
๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค
์ค๋๋ ์ด๋ป์ง์๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ธ์~ใ
ใ
Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
โIn true love
The distinction between loved ones and loved ones
does not exist.
Your pain is my pain.
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
My happiness is your happiness.
Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ,โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
โ
โ
๋์๋ฌ์ฌํํผ์ ํ๊ตฌ์
ํ๊ธฐ ํ๊ฐ์ ํํผํ๋งคโณโ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
ํํผ ํ๋๋ค ํํผ์ฝ๋๋ค ํํผ๊ตฌ์
โ
โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
์๋ก๋งํฅ ๋ฌ์์์ฐ ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๋งคํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ตฌ๋งค์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค
์ ํฌ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊น๋ํ์
์ฒด์
๋๋ค
๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค
์ค๋๋ ์ด๋ป์ง์๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ธ์~ใ
ใ
Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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โ
๋ฌผ๋ฝํ๋๋ค ํด๋ฝํํฐ์ ์ฉ ์ ํghbํ๋งค โณโ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
โณ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ๊ตฌ์
๋ฌผ๋ฝ์ฝํจ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ๊ตฌ์
๋ฐฉ๋ฒ!
โ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ๊ตฌ์
ํ๊ฐ์ ํํผ ํ๋งค โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
ํํผ ํ๋๋ค ํํผ ์ฝ๋๋ค ํํผ ๊ตฌ์
โThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world.
๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํด์ฃผ์ธ์~์ ํฌ๋ ์ ํํ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ ์ฉ๊ณผ์ ๋ขฐ์ ๊ฑฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
์๋ก๋งํฅ ๋ฌ์์์ฐ ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๋งคํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ตฌ๋งค์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค
์ ํฌ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊น๋ํ์
์ฒด์
๋๋ค
๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค
์ค๋๋ ์ด๋ป์ง์๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ธ์~ใ
ใ
Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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โ
๋์๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๊ฐ์ ํํผํ๋งคโณโ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
ํํผ ํ๋๋ค ํํผ์ฝ๋๋ค ํํผ๊ตฌ์
โ
โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
์๋ก๋งํฅ ๋ฌ์์์ฐ ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๋งคํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ตฌ๋งค์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค
์ ํฌ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊น๋ํ์
์ฒด์
๋๋ค
๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค
์ค๋๋ ์ด๋ป์ง์๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ธ์~ใ
ใ
Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
โIn true love
The distinction between loved ones and loved ones
does not exist.
Your pain is my pain.
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
My happiness is your happiness.
Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ,โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
โ
โ
๋์๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
ํ๊ธฐ ํ๊ฐ์ ํํผํ๋งคโณโ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
ํํผ ํ๋๋ค ํํผ์ฝ๋๋ค ํํผ๊ตฌ์
โ
There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world.
๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํด์ฃผ์ธ์~์ ํฌ๋ ์ ํํ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ ์ฉ๊ณผ์ ๋ขฐ์ ๊ฑฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
์๋ก๋งํฅ ๋ฌ์์์ฐ ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๋งคํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ตฌ๋งค์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค
์ ํฌ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊น๋ํ์
์ฒด์
๋๋ค
๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค
์ค๋๋ ์ด๋ป์ง์๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ธ์~ใ
ใ
Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
โIn true love
The distinction between loved ones and loved ones
does not exist.
Your pain is my pain.
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
My happiness is your happiness.
Loved ones and loved ones are one body
โ
โ
์ ํ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ,โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
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In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.
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Dave Mearns (Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice)
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๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ๊ตฌ์
ํ๊ฐ์ ํํผ ํ๋งค โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
ํํผ ํ๋๋ค ํํผ ์ฝ๋๋ค ํํผ ๊ตฌ์
โThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world.
๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํด์ฃผ์ธ์~์ ํฌ๋ ์ ํํ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ ์ฉ๊ณผ์ ๋ขฐ์ ๊ฑฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
ํ
๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
์๋ก๋งํฅ ๋ฌ์์์ฐ ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๋งคํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ตฌ๋งค์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค
์ ํฌ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊น๋ํ์
์ฒด์
๋๋ค
๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค
์ค๋๋ ์ด๋ป์ง์๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ธ์~ใ
ใ
Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋์๋ฌ์ฌํํผ์ ํ๊ตฌ์
๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๊ฐ์ ํํผํ๋งคโณโ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
ํํผ ํ๋๋ค ํํผ์ฝ๋๋ค ํํผ๊ตฌ์
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The motivation for taking on debt is to buy assets or claims rising in price. Over the past half-century the aim of financial investment has been less to earn profits on tangible capital investment than to generate โcapitalโ gains (most of which take the form of debt-leveraged land prices, not industrial capital). Annual price gains for property, stocks and bonds far outstrip the reported real estate rents, corporate profits and disposable personal income after paying for essential non-discretionary spending, headed by FIRE [Finance, Insurance, Real Estate]-sector charges.
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Michael Hudson (The Bubble and Beyond)
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There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world.
๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํด์ฃผ์ธ์~์ ํฌ๋ ์ ํํ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ ์ฉ๊ณผ์ ๋ขฐ์ ๊ฑฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
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์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
์๋ก๋งํฅ ๋ฌ์์์ฐ ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๋งคํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ตฌ๋งค์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค
์ ํฌ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊น๋ํ์
์ฒด์
๋๋ค
๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค
์ค๋๋ ์ด๋ป์ง์๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ธ์~ใ
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Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
โIn true love
The distinction between loved ones and loved ones
does not exist.
Your pain is my pain.
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
My happiness is your happiness.
Loved ones and loved ones are one body
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๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ,โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
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Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem. To see something in constantly new ways is to renew and multiply it. That is why the contemplative person, without ever leaving his village, will nevertheless have the whole universe at his disposal. Thereโs infinity in a cell or a desert. One can sleep cosmically against a rock.
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Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)
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The medial woman is immersed in the psychic atmosphere of her environment and the spirit of her period, but above all in the collective (impersonal) unconscious. The unconscious, once it is constellated and can become conscious, exerts an effect. The medial woman is overcome by this effect, she is absorbed and moulded by it and sometimes she represents it herself. She must for instance express or act what is โin the air,โ what the environment cannot or will not admit, but what is nevertheless a part of it. It is mostly the dark aspect of a situation or of a predominant idea, and she thus activates what is negative and dangerous. In this way she becomes the carrier of evil, but that she does, is nevertheless exclusively her personal problem. As the contents involved are unconscious, she lacks the necessary faculty of discrimination to perceive and the language to express them adequately. The overwhelming force of the collective unconscious sweeps through the ego of the medial woman and weakens it.
By its nature the collective unconscious is not limited to the person concerned further reason why the medial woman identifies herself and others with archetypal contents. But to deal with the collective unconscious demands a solid ego consciousness and an adequate adaptation to reality. As a rule the medial woman disposes of neither and consequently she will create confusion in the same measure as she herself is confused. Conscious and unconscious, I and you, personal and impersonal psychic contents remain undifferentiated. As objective psychic contents in herself and in others are not understood, or are taken personally, she experiences a destiny not her own as though it were her own and loses herself in ideas which do not belong to her. Instead of being a mediatrix, she is only a means and becomes the first victim of her own nature.
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Toni Wolff
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Nothing breaks my heart more than seeing that person whoโs struggling to lose weight who thinks that they need to run 20 miles a week. They have no desire to do it, their knees hurt, they hate it, and theyโre not losing weight. And Iโd like to say, โWell, Iโve got great news for you. You donโt ever need to run another step a day in your life, because thereโs no value in that.โ โThere is value in exercise, though, and I think that the most important type of exercise, especially in terms of bang for your buck, is going to be really high-intensity, heavy strength training. Strength training aids everything from glucose disposal and metabolic health to mitochondrial density and orthopedic stability. That last one might not mean much when youโre a 30-something young buck, but when youโre in your 70s, thatโs the difference between a broken hip and a walk in the park.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers)
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In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came into play. Kings and noblemen married for political advantage, and women rarely had any say in how they or their wealth were to be disposed in marriage. Kings would sell off heiresses and rich widows to the highest bidder, for political or territorial advantage, and those who resisted were heavily fined.
Young girls of good birth were strictly reared, often in convents, and married off at fourteen or even earlier to suit their parents' or overlord's purposes. The betrothal of infants was not uncommon, despite the church's disapproval. It was a father's duty to bestow his daughters in marriage; if he was dead, his overlord or the King himself would act for him. Personal choice was rarely and issue.
Upon marriage, a girl's property and rights became invested in her husband, to whom she owed absolute obedience. Every husband had the right to enforce this duty in whichever way he thought fit--as Eleanor was to find out to her cost. Wife-beating was common, although the Church did at this time attempt to restrict the length of the rod that a husband might use.
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Alison Weir (Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present))
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Ghouls," I heard Archer say. His voice was low and tense, like a person who's being confronted by a wild animal. "Reanimated human flesh, used as guardians. Seriously dark magic. Someone obviously didn't want us finding-"
"Oh my God,less talking, more stabbing, please." My voice was squeaky with fear, and I knew my eyes wer huge when I swiveled around to look at Archer.
He already had the sword in his hand, and he was crouching slightly. "I can slow them down, but ghouls can't be killed by blades. You're the one who has to stop them."
"Come again?" I nearly squeaked.
"You're a necromancer," he said. "They're dead."
Oh,right. One of the many "perks" of having a lot of dark magic at my disposal. But I'd never seen the point in boning up on my necromancer skills. When was I ever going to need to order around the dead?
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Rachel Hawkins (Demonglass (Hex Hall, #2))
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When you see that a person's defects and bad qualities are so obvious, try to feel immediately that his defects and bad qualities do not represent him totally. His real self is infinitely better than what you see now. On the other hand, if you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it stands now and not expect it to come to a specific standard. If humanity has to become perfect before it can be accepted by you, then it would not need your love affection and concern. Right now, in its imperfect state of consciousness, humanity needs your help. Give humanity unreservedly even the most insignificant and limited help that you have at your disposal. This is the golden opportunity.
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Sri Chinmoy (The Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy)
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[...] intellectualism (as understood by Fascists) divocers thought from action, science from life, the brain from the heart, and theory from practice. It is the posture of the talker and the skeptic, of the person who entrenches himself behind the maxim that it is one thing to say something and another thing to do it; it is the utopian who is the fabricator of systems that will never face concrete reality; it is the talk of the poet, the scientist, the philosopher, who confine themselves to fantasy and to speculation and are ill-disposed to look around themselves and see the earth on which they tread and on which are to be found those fundamental human interests that feed their very fantasy and intelligence.
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Giovanni Gentile (Origins and Doctrine of Fascism: With Selections from Other Works)
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The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders speaks volumes regarding who is viewed as disposableโsomeone to be purged from the body politicโand who is not. Drunk drivers are predominantly white and male. White men comprised 78 percent of the arrests for this offense in 1990 when new mandatory minimums governing drunk driving were being adopted.65 They are generally charged with misdemeanors and typically receive sentences involving fines, license suspension, and community service. Although drunk driving carries a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.66 People charged with drug offenses, though, are disproportionately poor people of color. They are typically charged with felonies and sentenced to prison.
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Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness)
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... Your questions, Captain Delmonico, go beyond the limits of acceptable behavior! I intend to report you to everyone in a position to discipline you, is that understood?" He was beginning to splutter. "You're a-a-Gestapo inquisitor!"
"Mr. Smith," Carmine said gently, "a policeman investigating murder uses many techniques to obtain information, but more than that, he also uses them to learn in the small amount of time at his disposal what kind of person he's questioning. During our first interview you were rude and overbearing, which leaves me free to tread heavily on your toes, even though your toes are sheathed in handmade shoes. You imply that you have the power to see me - er - 'disciplined', but I must tell you that no one in authority will take any notice of your complaints, because those in authority all know me. I have earned my status, not bought it. Murder means that everything in your life is my business until I remove you from my list of suspects. Is that clear?
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Colleen McCullough
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Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales... Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Breakfast of Champions)
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The answer to all questions of life and death, "the absolute solution" was written all over the world he had known: it was like a traveller realising that the wild country he surveys is not an accidental assembly of natural phenomena, but the page in a book where these mountains and forests, and fields, and rivers are disposed in such a way as to form a coherent sentence; the vowel of a lake fusing with the consonant of a sibilant slope; the windings of a road writing its message in a round hand, as clear as that of one's father; trees conversing in dumb-show, making sense to one who has learnt the gestures of their language... Thus the traveller spells the landscape and its sense is disclosed, and likewise, the intricate pattern of human life turns out to be monogrammatic, now quite clear to the inner eye disentangling the interwoven letters. And the word, the meaning which appears is astounding in its simplicity: the greatest surprise being perhaps that in the course of one's earthly existence, with one's brain encompassed by an iron ring, by the close-fitting dream of one's own personality - one had not made by chance that simple mental jerk, which would have set free imprisoned thought and granted it the great understanding.
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Vladimir Nabokov (The Real Life of Sebastian Knight)
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Existentialist literature provides a more satisfactory account of the persistence of feminine narcissism. Simone de Beauvoir makes use of the existentialist conception of 'situation' in order to account for the persistence of narcissism in the feminine personality. A woman's situation, i.e., those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as the instrument of her transcendence, but as 'an object destined for another.'
Knowing that she is to be subjected to the cold appraisal of the male connoisseur and that her life prospects may depend on how she is seen, a woman learns to appraise herself first. The sexual objectification of women produces a duality in feminine consciousness. The gaze of the Other is internalized so that I myself become at once seer and seen, appraiser and the thing appraised.
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Sandra Lee Bartky (Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression (Thinking Gender))
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์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
์๋ก๋งํฅ ๋ฌ์์์ฐ ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๋งคํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ตฌ๋งค์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค
์ ํฌ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊น๋ํ์
์ฒด์
๋๋ค
๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค
์ค๋๋ ์ด๋ป์ง์๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ธ์~ใ
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Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
โIn true love
The distinction between loved ones and loved ones
does not exist.
Your pain is my pain.
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
My happiness is your happiness.
Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ฐ๊ฒฉ,โ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๊ตฌ์
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์ ํ์์คํฐ์๊ตฌ๋งคํ๊ธฐ "์ฝ๋ฆฌ์ํ" ์์คํฐ์๊ตฌ์
๋ฐฉ๋ฒ,โณโ
์นดํก:kodak8โ
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๋ ๊ทธ๋จ:Komen68โ
โณ์์คํฐ์์ ํํ๋งค,์์คํฐ์ํ๋งค,์ ํ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๊ตฌ์
๋ฐฉ๋ฒ,
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These scenes,โ said Valancourt, at length, โsoften the heart, like the notes of sweet music, and inspire that delicious melancholy which no person, who had felt it once, would resign for the gayest pleasures. They waken our best and purest feelings, disposing us to benevolence, pity, and friendship. Those whom I love โ I always seem to love more in such an hour as this.โ His voice trembled, and he paused.
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Ann Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest: A Gothic Novel (Annotated) (Reader's Edition))
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For, occupied incessantly with the consideration of the limits prescribed to their power by nature, they [philosophers of former times] became so entirely convinced that nothing was at their disposal except their own thoughts, that this conviction was of itself sufficient to prevent their entertaining any desire of other objects; and over their thoughts they acquired a sway so absolute, that they had some ground on this account for esteeming themselves more rich and more powerful, more free and more happy, than other men who, whatever be the favors heaped on them by nature and fortune, if destitute of this philosophy, can never command the realization of all their desires.
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Renรฉ Descartes (Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy)
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If D1 was a just distribution, and people voluntarily moved from it to D2, transferring parts of their shares they were given under D1 (what was it for if not to do something with?), isn't D2 also just? If the people were entitled to dispose of the resources to which they were entitled (under D1), didn't this include their being entitled to give it to, or exchange it with, Wilt Chamberlain? Can anyone else complain on grounds of justice? Each other person already has his legitimate share under D1. Under D1, there is nothing that anyone has that anyone else has a claim of justice against. After someone transfers something to Wilt Chamberlain, third parties still have their legitimate shares; their shares are not changed. By what process could such a transfer among two persons give rise to a legitimate claim of distributive justice on a portion of what was transferred, by a third party who had no claim of justice on any holding of the others before the transfer?
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Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia)
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The shadow, when it is realized, is the source of renewal; the new and productive impulse cannot come from established values of the ego. When there is an impasse, and sterile time in our livesโdespite an adequate ego developmentโwe must look to the dark, hitherto unacceptable side which has been at our conscious disposalโฆ.This brings us to the fundamental fact that the shadow is the door to our individuality. In so far as the shadow renders us our first view of the unconscious part of our personality, it represents the first stage toward meeting the Self. There is, in fact, no access to the unconscious and to our own reality but through the shadow. Only when we realize that part of ourselves which we have not hitherto seen or preferred not to see can we proceed to question and find the sources from which it feeds and the basis on which it rests. Hence no progress or growth is possible until the shadow is adequately confronted and confronting means more than merely knowing about it. It is not until we have truly been shocked into seeing ourselves as we really are, instead of as we wish or hopefully assume we are, that we can take the first step toward individual reality.
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Connie Zweig (Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature)
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Hank Green's Secrets of Productivity:
1.) I have convinced myself that if I am not using all of the tools I have in my disposal to do the maximum amount of good [...] then I am less of a good person than I could otherwise could be. [...]
2.) I intentionally put myself in situations where people who I care about and who I respect rely on me to do things, which is very motivating. [...]
3.) I don't get caught up in doing everything perfectly. [...] I just want to try stuff and if it explodes... it exploded! And I learned!
4.) I love giving other people responsibility. I love putting them in difficult situations and saying: "Figure this out. Help me do this." And if they do it wrong or if they do it differently than how I would have done it, I don't get mad as long as they're learning, because there's no way to get good at stuff except to do it and fail and learn. [...]
5.) I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!
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Hank Green
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In addition, Dr. Dannyboy has suggested a fifth element: positive thinking. Pointing out that their breathing, bathing, dining and screwing brought Alobar and Kudra much physical pleasure, and that an organism steeped in pleasure is an organism disposed to continue, he has said that the will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity. Indeed Dr. Dannyboy goes so far as to claim that ninety percent of all deaths are suicides. Persons, says Wiggs, who lack curiosity about life, who find minimal joy in existence, are all too willing, subconsciously, to cooperate with- and attract- disease, accident and violence.
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Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)
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Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr. Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult thing in the world to shake off.
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Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
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The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It spoke of the kind of personal issue that touched her most nearly; of the choice between objects, subjects, contactsโwhat might she call them?โof a thin and those of a rich association; of a lonely, studious life in a lovely land; of an old sorrow that sometimes ached to-day; of a feeling of pride that was perhaps exaggerated, but that had an element of nobleness; of a care for beauty and perfection so natural and so cultivated together that the career appeared to stretch beneath it in the disposed vistas and with the ranges of steps and terraces and fountains of a formal Italian gardenโallowing only for arid places freshened by the natural dews of a quaint half-anxious, half-helpless fatherhood.
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Henry James
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The privileges of the clergy in those ancient times (which to us, who live in the present times, appear the most absurd), their total exemption from the secular jurisdiction, for example, or what in England was called the benefit of clergy, were the natural, or rather the necessary, consequences of this state of things. How dangerous must it have been for the sovereign to attempt to punish a clergyman for any crime whatever, if his order were disposed to protect him, and to represent either the proof as insufficient for convicting so holy a man, or the punishment as too severe to be inflicted upon one whose person had been rendered sacred by religion? The sovereign could, in such circumstances, do no better than leave him to be tried by the ecclesiastical courts, who, for the honour of their own order, were interested to restrain, as much as possible, every member of it from committing enormous crimes, or even from giving occasion to such gross scandal as might disgust the minds of the people.
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Adam Smith (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations)
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Who needs me?โ is a question of character which suffers a radical challenge in modern capitalism. The system radiates indifference. It does so in terms of the outcomes of human striving, as in winner-take-all markets, where there is little connection between risk and reward. It radiates indifference in the organization of absence and trust, where there is no reason to be needed. And it does so through reengineering of institutions in which people are treated as disposable. Such practices obviously and brutally diminish the sense of mattering as a person, of being necessary to others. It could be said that capitalism was always thus. But not in the same way. The indifference of the old class-bound capitalism was starkly material; the indifference which radiates out of flexible capitalism is more personal because the system itself is less starkly etched, less legible in form.
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Richard Sennett (The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism)
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What do think about abortion?โ
โI could feel the tension growing in the plane. I dropped my head, acknowledging that we had very different value systems for our lives. Then I thought of a way to respond to his question.
โYouโre Jewish, right?โ I asked.
โYes,โ he said defensively. โI told you I was!โ
โDo you know how Hitler persuaded the German people to destroy more than six million of your Jewish ancestors?โ The man looked at me expectantly, so I continued. โHe convinced them that Jews were not human and then exterminated your people like rats.โ
I could see that I had his attention, so I went on. โDo you understand how Americans enslaved, tortured, and killed millions of Africans? We dehumanized them so our constitution didnโt apply to them, and then we treated them worse than animals.โ
โHow about the Native Americans?โ I pressed. โDo you have any idea how we managed to hunt Indians like wild animals, drive them out of their own land, burn their villages, rape their women, and slaughter their children? Do you have any clue how everyday people turned into cruel murderers?โ
My Jewish friend was silent, and his eyes were filling with tears as I made my point. โWe made people believe that the Native Americans were wild savages, not real human beings, and then we brutalized them without any conviction of wrongdoing! Now do you understand how we have persuaded mothers to kill their own babies? We took the word fetus, which is the Latin word for โoffspring,โ and redefined it to dehumanize the unborn. We told mothers, โThat is not really a baby you are carrying in your belly; it is a fetus, tissue that suddenly forms into a human being just seconds before it exits the womb.โ In doing so, we were able to assert that, in the issue of abortion, there is only one personโs human rights to consider, and then we convinced mothers that disposing of fetal tissue (terminating the life of their babies) was a womanโs right. Our constitution no longer protects the unborn because they are not real people. They are just lifeless blobs of tissue.โ
By now, tears were flowing down his cheeks. I looked right into his eyes and said, โYour people, the Native Americans, and the African Americans should be the greatest defenders of the unborn on the planet. After all, you know what itโs like for society to redefine you so that they can destroy your races. But ironically, your races have the highest abortion rates in this country! Somebody is still trying to exterminate your people, and you donโt even realize it. The names have changed, but the plot remains the same!โ
Finally he couldnโt handle it anymore. He blurted out, โI have never heard anything like this before. I am hanging out with the wrong people. I have been deceived!
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Kris Vallotton
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I had started on the marriage and motherhood beat by accident with a post on my personal, read only by friends, blog called โFifty Shades of Menโ. I had written it after buying Fifty Shades of Grey to spice up what Dave and I half-jokingly called our grown up time, and had written a meditation on how the sex wasnโt the sexiest part of the book. โDear publishers, I will tell you why every woman with a ring on her finger and a car seat in her SUV is devouring this book like the candy she wonโt let herself eat.โ I had written. โItโs not the fantasy of an impossibly handsome guy who can give you an orgasm just by stroking your nipples. It is instead the fantasy of a guy who can give you everything. Hapless, clueless, barely able to remain upright without assistance, Ana Steele is that unlikeliest of creatures, a college student who doesnโt have an email address, a computer, or a clue. Turns out she doesnโt need any of those things. Here is the dominant Christian Grey and heโll give her that computer plus an iPad, a beamer, a job, and an identity, sexual and otherwise. No more worrying about what to wear. Christian buys her clothes. No more stress about how to be in the bedroom. Christian makes those decisions. For women who do too muchโwhich includes, dear publishers, pretty much all the women who have enough disposable income to buy your booksโthis is the ultimate fantasy: not a man who will make you come, but a man who will make agency unnecessary, a man who will choose your adventure for you.
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Jennifer Weiner (All Fall Down)
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Who needs me?โ is a question of character which suffers a radical challenge in modern capitalism. The system radiates indifference. It does so in terms of the outcomes of human striving, as in winner-take-all markets, where there is little connection between risk and reward. It radiates indifference in the organization of absence of trust, where there is no reason to be needed. And it does so through reengineering of institutions in which people are treated as disposable. Such practices obviously and brutally diminish the sense of mattering as a person, of being necessary to others.
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Richard Sennett (The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism)
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Last night, at a press conference, the City Council reminded everyone that the Dog Park is there for our community enjoyment and use, and so it is important that no one enter, look at, or think about the Dog Park. They are adding a new advanced camera system to keep an eye on the great black walls of the Dog Park at all times, and if anyone is caught trying to enter it, they will be forced to enter it, and will never be heard from again. If you see hooded figures in the Dog Park, no you didnโt. The hooded figures are perfectly safe, and should not be approached at any costs. The City Council ended the conference by devouring a raw potato in quick, small bites of their sharp teeth and rough tongues. No follow-up questions were asked, although there were a few follow-up screams.
We have also received word via encrypted radio pulses about the opening of a new store: Lennyโs Bargain House of Gardenwares and Machine Parts, which until recently was that abandoned warehouse the government was using for the highly classified and completely secret tests I was telling you about last week. Lennyโs will serve as a helpful new source for all needs involving landscaping and lawn-decorating materials and also as a way for the government to unload all the machines and failed tests and dangerous substances that otherwise would be wasted on things like โsafe disposalโ or โburying in a concrete tomb until the sun goes out.โ
Get out to Lennyโs for their big grand opening sale. Find eight government secrets and get a free kidnapping and personality reassignment so that youโll forget you found them!
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Joseph Fink (Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1))
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Thus all consent to that maxim of Crassus, that a prince cannot have treasure enough, since he must maintain his armies out of it; that a king, even though he would, can do nothing unjustly; that all property is in him, not excepting the very persons of his subjects; and that no man has any other property but that which the king, out of his goodness, thinks fit to leave him.ย And they think it is the princeโs interest that there be as little of this left as may be, as if it were his advantage that his people should have neither riches nor liberty, since these things make them less easy and willing to submit to a cruel and unjust government.ย Whereas necessity and poverty blunts them, makes them patient, beats them down, and breaks that height of spirit that might otherwise dispose them to rebel.ย
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Thomas More (Utopia)
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They are not yet finished with this world; they still donโt know how to struggle along and avoid the mystery, as we do. We destroy the mystery because we sense that here we reach the boundary of our being, because we want to be lord over everything and have it at our disposal, and thatโs just what we cannot do with the mysteryโฆ. Living without mystery means knowing nothing of the mystery of our own life, nothing of the mystery of another person, nothing of the mystery of the world; it means passing over our own hidden qualities and those of others and the world. It means remaining on the surface, taking the world seriously only to the extent that it can be calculated and exploited, and not going beyond the world of calculation and exploitation. Living without mystery means not seeing the crucial processes of life at all and even denying them.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas)
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It is foolish to wish for beauty.ย Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others.ย If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.ย So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day.ย All very judicious and proper, no doubt; but are such assertions supported by actual experience?
We are naturally disposed to love what gives us pleasure, and what more pleasing than a beautiful faceโwhen we know no harm of the possessor at least?ย A little girl loves her birdโWhy?ย Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless?ย A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.ย If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence; while, if she is plain and good, provided she is a person of retired manners and secluded life, no one ever knows of her goodness, except her immediate connections.ย Others, on the contrary, are disposed to form unfavourable opinions of her mind, and disposition, if it be but to excuse themselves for their instinctive dislike of one so unfavoured by nature; and visa versรข with her whose angel form conceals a vicious heart, or sheds a false, deceitful charm over defects and foibles that would not be tolerated in another.ย
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Anne Brontรซ (Agnes Grey)
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As for Iagoโs jealousy, one cannot believe that a seriously jealous man could behave towards his wife as Iago behaves towards Emilia, for the wife of a jealous husband is the first person to suffer. Not only is the relation of Iago and Emilia, as we see it on stage, without emotional tension, but also Emilia openly refers to a rumor of her infidelity as something already disposed of.
Some such squire it was
That turned your wit, the seamy side without
And made you to suspect me with the Moor.
At one point Iago states that, in order to revenge himself on Othello, he will not rest till he is even with him, wife for wife, but, in the play, no attempt at Desdemonaโs seduction is made. Iago does not encourage Cassio to make one, and he even prevents Roderigo from getting anywhere near her.
Finally, one who seriously desires personal revenge desires to reveal himself. The revengerโs greatest satisfaction is to be able to tell his victim to his face โ "You thought you were all-powerful and untouchable and could injure me with impunity. Now you see that you were wrong. Perhaps you have forgotten what you did; let me have the pleasure of reminding you."
When at the end of the play, Othello asks Iago in bewilderment why he has thus ensnared his soul and body, if his real motive were revenge for having been cuckolded or unjustly denied promotion, he could have said so, instead of refusing to explain.
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W.H. Auden (The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays)
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The repeated attempts that have been made to improve humanity - in particular to make it more peacable - have failed, because nobody has understood the full depth and vigour of the instincts of aggression innate in each individual. Such efforts do not seek to do more than encourage the positive, well-wishing impulses of the person while denying or suppressing his aggressive ones. And so they have been doomed to failure from the beginning. But psychoanalysis has different means at its disposal for a task of this kind. It cannot, it is true, altogether do away with man's aggressive instinct as such; but it can, by diminishing the anxiety which accentuates those instincts, break up the mutual reinforcement that is going on all the time between his hatred and his fear. When, in our analytic work, we are always seeing how the resolution of early infantile anxiety not only lessens and modifies the child's aggressive impulses, but leads to a more valuable employment and gratification of them from a social point of view; how the child shows an ever-grwing, deeply rooted desire to be loved and to love, and to be at peace with the world about it; and how much pleasure and benefit, and what a lessening of anxiety it derives from the fulfilment of this desire - when we see all this, we are ready to believe that what now would seem a Utopian state of things may well come true in those distant days when, as I hope, child-analysis will become as much a part of every person's upbringing as school-education is now. Then, perhaps, that hostile attitude, springing from fear and suspicion, which is latent more or less strongly in each human being, and which intensifies a hundredfold in him every impulse of destruction, will give way to kindlier and more trustful feelings towards his fellowmen, and people may inhabit the world together in greater peace and goodwill than they do now.
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Melanie Klein (Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945 (The Writings of Melanie Klein, Volume 1))
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A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
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Alexander Hamilton (The Federalist Papers (Illustrated))
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The United States is a conceited nation with shallow roots, and what happened before living memory doesn't seem to interest most people I know at home. We like living in our houses with our new furniture, on our new streets in new neighborhoods. Everything is disposable and everything is replaceable. Personal family history can feel simply irrelevant in our new world, beyond the simplest national identifications, and even those who can get sort of vague for people. I remember a boy in high school who told the history teacher he was 'half Italian, half Polish, half English, half German, and one-quarter Swedish.' I think one of the reasons so many of us are disconnected from our histories is because none of it happened where we live in the present; the past, for so many, is a faraway place across an ocean.
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Katharine Weber (The Music Lesson)
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I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lacks an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert. Everybody looks at you with strange eyes and goes right on handling his scales, calling this good and that evil. Nobody even blushes when you intimate that their weights are underweight; nor do people feel outraged; they merely laugh at your doubts. I mean: the great majority of people does not consider it contemptible to believe this or that and to live accordingly, without first having given themselves an account of the final and most certain reasons pro and con, and without even troubling themselves about such reasons afterward: the most gifted men and the noblest women still belong to this "great majority." But what is goodheartedness, refinement, or genius to me, when the person who has these virtues tolerates slack feelings in his faith and judgments and when he does not account the desire for certainty as his inmost craving and deepest distressโas that which separates the higher human beings from the lower.
Among some pious people I found a hatred of reason and was well disposed to them for that; for this at least betrayed their bad intellectual conscience. But to stand in the midst of this rerum concordia discors and of this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity of existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning, without at least hating the person who questions, perhaps even finding him faintly amusingโthat is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human being has this feeling, simply because he is human. This is my type of injustice.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morals, including especially, our institutions of property, freedom and justice, are not a creation of manโs reason but a distinct second endowment conferred on him by cultural evolution - runs counter to the main intellectual outlook of the twentieth century. The influence of rationalism has indeed been so profound and pervasive that, in general, the more intelligent an educated person is, the more likely he or she now is not only to be a rationalist, but also to hold socialist views (regardless of whether he or she is sufficiently doctrinal to attach to his or her views any label, including โsocialistโ). The higher we climb up the ladder of intelligence, the more we talk with intellectuals, the more likely we are to encounter socialist convictions. Rationalists tend to be intelligent and intellectual; and intelligent intellectuals tend to be socialist.
Oneโs initial surprise at finding that intelligent people tend to be socialist diminishes when one realises that, of course, intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence, and to suppose that we must owe all the advantages and opportunities that our civilisation offers to deliberate design rather than to following traditional rules, and likewise to suppose that we can, by exercising our reason, eliminate any remaining undesired features by still more intelligence reflection, and still more appropriate design and โrational coordinationโ of our undertakings. This leads one to be favorably disposed to the central economic planning and control that lie at the heart of socialismโฆ And since they have been taught that constructivism and scientism are what science and the use of reason are all about, they find it hard to believe that there can exist any useful knowledge that did not originate in deliberate experimentation, or to accept the validity of any tradition apart from their own tradition of reason. Thus [they say]: โTradition is almost by definition reprehensible, something to be mocked and deploredโ.
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Friedrich A. Hayek (The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism)
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It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day. All very judicious and proper, no doubt; but are such assertions supported by actual experience?
We are naturally disposed to love what gives us pleasure, and what more pleasing than a beautiful face--when we know no harm of the possessor at least? A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes. If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence; while, if she is plain and good, provided she is a person of retired manners and secluded life, no one ever knows of her goodness, except her immediate connections. Others, on the contrary, are disposed to form unfavourable opinions of her mind, and disposition, if it be but to excuse themselves for their instinctive dislike of one so unfavoured by nature; and visa versa with her whose angel form conceals a vicious heart, or sheds a false, deceitful charm over defects and foibles that would not be tolerated in another. They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, like any other talent; they that have it not, let them console themselves, and do the best they can without it: certainly, though liable to be over-estimated, it is a gift of God, and not to be despised.
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Anne Brontรซ
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Every action is a losing, a letting go, a passing away from oneself of some bit of oneโs own reality into the existence of others and of the world. In Jesus Christ, this character of action is not resisted, by trying to use our action to assert ourselves, extend ourselves, to impose our will and being upon situations. In Jesus Christ, this self-expending character of action is joyfully affirmed. I receive myself constantly from Godโs Parenting love. But so far as some aspects of myself are at my disposal, these I receive to give away. Those who would live as Jesus didโwho would act and purpose themselves as Jesus didโmean to love, i.e., they mean to expend themselves for others unto death. Their being is meant to pass away from them to others, and they make that meaning the conscious direction of their existence.
Too often the love which is proclaimed in the churches suppresses this element of loss and need and death in activity. As a Christian, I often speak of love as helping others, but I ignore what this does to the person who loves. I ignore the fact that love is self-expenditure, a real expending and losing and deterioration of the self. I speak of love as if the person loving had no problems, no needs, no limits. In other words, I speak of love as if the affluent dream were true. This kind of proclamation is heard everywhere. We hear it said: 'Since you have no unanswered needs, why donโt you go out and help those other people who are in need?' But we never hear people go on and add: 'If you do this, you too will be driven into need.' And by not stating this conclusion, people give the childish impression that Christian love is some kind of cornucopia, where we can reach to everybodyโs needs and problems and still have everything we need for ourselves. Believe me, there are grown-up persons who speak this kind of nonsense. And when people try to live out this illusory love, they become terrified when the self-expending begins to take its toll. Terror of relationship is [that] we eat each other.
But note this very carefully: like Jesus, we too can only live to give our received selves away freely because we know our being is not thereby ended, but still and always lies in the Parenting of our God....
Those who love in the name of Jesus Christ... serve the needs of others willingly, even to the point of being exposed in their own neediness.... They do not cope with their own needs. They do not anguish over how their own needs may be met by the twists and turns of their circumstances, by the whims of their society, or by the strategies of their own egos. At the center of their lifeโthe very innermost centerโthey are grateful to God, because... they do not fear neediness. That is what frees them to serve the needy, to companion the needy, to become and be one of the needy.
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Arthur C. McGill (Dying Unto Life (Theological Fascinations))
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But now I speculate re the ants' invisible organ of aggregate thought... if, in a city park of broad reaches, winding paths, roadways, and lakes, you can imagine seeing on a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon the random and unpredictable movement of great numbers of human beings in the same way... if you watch one person, one couple, one family, a child, you can assure yourself of the integrity of the individual will and not be able to divine what the next moment will bring. But when the masses are celebrating a beautiful day in the park in a prescribed circulation of activities, the wider lens of thought reveals nothing errant, nothing inconstant or unnatural to the occasion. And if someone acts in a mutant un-park manner, alarms go off, the unpredictable element, a purse snatcher, a gun wielder, is isolated, surrounded, ejected, carried off as waste. So that while we are individually and privately dyssynchronous, moving in different ways, for different purposes, in different directions, we may at the same time comprise, however blindly, the pulsing communicating cells of an urban over-brain. The intent of this organ is to enjoy an afternoon in the park, as each of us street-grimy urbanites loves to do. In the backs of our minds when we gather for such days, do we know this? How much of our desire to use the park depends on the desires of others to do the same? How much of the idea of a park is in the genetic invitation on nice days to reflect our massive neuromorphology? There is no central control mechanism telling us when and how to use the park. That is up to us. But when we do, our behavior there is reflective, we can see more of who we are because of the open space accorded to us, and it is possible that it takes such open space to realize in simple form the ordinary identity we have as one multicellular culture of thought that is always there, even when, in the comparative blindness of our personal selfhood, we are flowing through the streets at night or riding under them, simultaneously, as synaptic impulses in the metropolitan brain.
Is this a stretch? But think of the contingent human mind, how fast it snaps onto the given subject, how easily it is introduced to an idea, an image that it had not dreamt of thinking of a millisecond before... Think of how the first line of a story yokes the mind into a place, a time, in the time it takes to read it. How you can turn on the radio and suddenly be in the news, and hear it and know it as your own mind's possession in the moment's firing of a neuron. How when you hear a familiar song your mind adopts its attitudinal response to life before the end of the first bar. How the opening credits of a movie provide the parameters of your emotional life for its ensuing two hours... How all experience is instantaneous and instantaneously felt, in the nature of ordinary mind-filling revelation. The permeable mind, contingently disposed for invasion, can be totally overrun and occupied by all the characteristics of the world, by everything that is the case, and by the thoughts and propositions of all other minds considering everything that is the case... as instantly and involuntarily as the eye fills with the objects that pass into its line of vision.
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E.L. Doctorow (City of God)
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There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world.
๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํด์ฃผ์ธ์~์ ํฌ๋ ์ ํํ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ ์ฉ๊ณผ์ ๋ขฐ์ ๊ฑฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
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Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body.
There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
โIn true love
The distinction between loved ones and loved ones
does not exist.
Your pain is my pain.
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, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-๋ถ๋ฒ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-์ฉ๋, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๊ณณ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํ๋๋ค, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ-ํจ๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผ๊ตฌ์
, ๋ฌ์ฌํํผํ๋งค
My happiness is your happiness.
Loved ones and loved ones are one body
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Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts. Two greyhounds, in running down the same hare, have sometimes the appearance of acting in some sort of concert. Each turns her towards his companion, or endeavours to intercept her when his companion turns her towards himself. This, however, is not the effect of any contract, but of the accidental concurrence of their passions in the same object at that particular time. Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that. When an animal wants to obtain something either of a man or of another animal, it has no other means of persuasion but to gain the favour of those whose service it requires. A puppy fawns upon its dam, and a spaniel endeavours by a thousand attractions to engage the attention of its master who is at dinner, when it wants to be fed by him. Man sometimes uses the same arts with his brethren, and when he has no other means of engaging them to act according to his inclinations, endeavours by every servile and fawning attention to obtain their good will. He has not time, however, to do this upon every occasion. In civilised society he stands at all times in need of the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes, while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons. In almost every other race of animals each individual, when it is grown up to maturity, is entirely independent, and in its natural state has occasion for the assistance of no other living creature. But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people, indeed, supplies him with the whole fund of his subsistence. But though this principle ultimately provides him with all the necessaries of life which he has occasion for, it neither does nor can provide him with them as he has occasion for them. The greater part of his occasional wants are supplied in the same manner as those of other people, by treaty, by barter, and by purchase. With the money which one man gives him he purchases food. The old clothes which another bestows upon him he exchanges for other old clothes which suit him better, or for lodging, or for food, or for money, with which he can buy either food, clothes, or lodging, as he has occasion.
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Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)
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Fred had first come to Fire Island Pines when he was thirty. He wasnโt ready for such beauty, such potential, such unlimited choice. The place scared him half to death. It was a warm and sunny weekend and there were one thousand bathing-suited handsomenesses on The Botel deck at Tea Dance. They all seemed to know each other and to touch and greet and smile at each other. And there he was, alone. Though he had acquired his 150-pound body for the first time (of his so-far three: the first for himself, the second for Feffer, number three, with muscles, for Dinky), he still felt like Mrs. Shelleyโs monster, pale, and with a touch of leprosy thrown in. Not only had he no one to talk to, not only did the overwhelmingness of being confronted by so much Grade A male flesh, most of which seemed superior to his, which would make it difficult to talk to, even if he could utter, which he could not, floor him, but everyone else seemed so secure, not only with their bodies (all thin and no doubt well-defined since birth), tans, personalities, their smiles and chat, but also with that ability to use their eyes, much like early prospectors must have looked for gold, darting them hither and yon, seeking out the sparkling flecks, separating the valued from the less so, meaning, he automatically assumed, him. Their glances his way seemed like disposable bottles, no deposit, no return. He felt like Mr. Not Wanted On The Voyage, even though it was, so be it, his birthday. Many years would pass before he would discover that everybody else felt exactly the same, but came out every weekend so to feel, thus over the years developing more flexible feelings in so feeling.
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Larry Kramer (Faggots)
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Dear patient (first name, last name)! You are presently located in our experimental state hospital. The measures taken to save your life were drastic, extremely drastic (circle one). Our finest surgeons, availing themselves of the very latest achievements of modern medicine, performed one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten operations (circle one) on you. They were forced, acting wholly in your interest to replace certain parts of your organism with parts obtained from other persons, in strict accordance with Federal Law (Rev. Stat. Comm. 1-989/0-001/89/1). The notice you are now reading was thoughtfully prepared in order to help you make the best possible adjustment to these new if somewhat unexpected circumstances in your life, which, we hasten to remind you, we have saved. Although it was found necessary to remove your arms, legs, spine, skill, lungs, stomach, kidneys, liver, other (circle one or more), rest assured that these mortal remains were disposed of in a manner fully in keeping with the dictates of your religion; they were, with the proper ritual, interred, embalmed, mummified, buried at sea, cremated with the ashes scattered in the windโpreserved in an urnโthrown in the garbage (circle one). The new form in which you will henceforth lead a happy and healthy existence may possibly occasion you some surprise, but we promise that in time you will become, as indeed all our dear patients do, quite accustomed to it We have supplemented your organism with the very best, the best, perfectly functional, adequate, the only available (circle one) organs at our disposal, and they are fully guaranteed to last a year, six months, three months, three weeks, six days (circle one).
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Stanisลaw Lem (The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy)
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If any considerable number of the people believe the Constitution to be good, why do they not sign it themselves, and make laws for, and administer them upon, each other; leaving all other persons (who do not interfere with them) in peace? Until they have tried the experiment for themselves, how can they have the face to impose the Constitution upon, or even to recommend it to, others? Plainly the reason for absurd and inconsistent conduct is that they want the Constitution, not solely for any honest or legitimate use it can be of to themselves or others, but for the dishonest and illegitimate power it gives them over the persons and properties of others. But for this latter reason, all their eulogiums on the Constitution, all their exhortations, and all their expenditures of money and blood to sustain it, would be wanting. VIII. The Constitution itself, then, being of no authority, on what authority does our government practically rest? On what ground can those who pretend to administer it, claim the right to seize men's property, to restrain them of their natural liberty of action, industry, and trade, and to kill all who deny their authority to dispose of men's properties, liberties, and lives at their pleasure or discretion? The most they can say, in answer to this question, is, that some half, two-thirds, or three-fourths, of the male adults of the country have a tacit understanding that they will maintain a government under the Constitution; that they will select, by ballot, the persons to administer it; and that those persons who may receive a majority, or a plurality, of their ballots, shall act as their representatives, and administer the Constitution in their name, and by their authority. But
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Lysander Spooner (No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (Complete Series))
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He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going up a smokestack of a crematorium there:
"I had just been assigned to the Sonderkommando," he said to me, "when the order came from Himmler to close the ovens down."
Sonderkommando means special detail. At Auschwitz it meant a very special detail indeed--one composed of prisoners whose duties were to shepherd condemned persons into gas chambers, and then to lug their bodies out. When the job was done, the members of the Sonderkommando were themselves killed. The first duty of their successors was to dispose of their remains. Gutman told me that many men actually volunteered for the Sonderkommando.
"Why?" I asked him.
"If you would write a book about that," he said, "and give the answer to that question, that 'Why?'--you would have a very great book."
"Do you know the answer?" I said.
"No," he said, "That is why I would pay a great deal of money for a book with the answer in it."
"Any guesses?" I said.
"No," he said, looking me straight in the eye, "even though I was one of the ones who volunteered."
He went away for a little while, after having confessed that. And he thought about Auschwitz, the thing he liked least to think about. And he came back, and he said to me:
"There were loudspeakers all over the camp," he said, "and they were never silent for long. There was much music played through them. Those who were musical told me it was often good music--sometimes the best."
"That's interesting," I said.
"There was no music by Jews," he said. "That was forbidden." "Naturally," I said. "And the music was always stopping in the middle," he said, "and then there was an announcement. All day long, music and announcements."
"Very modern," I said. He closed his eyes, remembered gropingly.
"There was one announcement that was always crooned, like a nursery rhyme. Many times a day it came. It was the call for the Sonderkommando."
"Oh?" I said.
"Leichentรคrger zu Wache," he crooned, his eyes still closed. Translation: "Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse."
In an institution in which the purpose was to kill human beings by the millions, it was an understandably common cry.
"After two years of hearing that call over the loudspeakers, between the music," Gutman said to me, "the position of corpse-carrier suddenly sounded like a very good job.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Mother Night)
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Though all the brilliant intellects of the ages were to concentrate upon this one theme, never could they adequately express their wonder at this dense darkness of the human mind. Men do not suffer anyone to seize their estates, and they rush to stones and arms if there is even the slightest dispute about the limit of their lands, yet they allow others to trespass upon their lifeโnay, they themselves even lead in those who will eventually possess it. No one is to be found who is willing to distribute his money, yet among how many does each one of us distribute his life! In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet, when it comes to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal. And so I should like to lay hold upon someone from the company of older men and say: "I see that you have reached the farthest limit of human life, you are pressing hard upon your hundredth year, or are even beyond it; come now, recall your life and make a reckoning. Consider how much of your time was taken up with a moneylender, how much with a mistress, how much with a patron, how much with a client, how much in wrangling with your wife, how much in punishing your slaves, how much in rushing about the city on social duties. Add the diseases which we have caused by our own acts, add, too, the time that has lain idle and unused; you will see that you have fewer years to your credit than you count. Look back in memory and consider when you ever had a fixed plan, how few days have passed as you had intended, when you were ever at your own disposal, when your face ever wore its natural expression, when your mind was ever unperturbed, what work you have achieved in so long a life, how many have robbed you of life when you were not aware of what you were losing, how much was taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements of society, how little of yourself was left to you; you will perceive that you are dying before your season!"7 What, then, is the reason of this? You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals. You will hear many men saying: "After my fiftieth year I shall retire into leisure, my sixtieth year shall release me from public duties." And what guarantee, pray, have you that your life will last longer? Who will suffer your course to be just as you plan it? Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant of life, and to set apart for wisdom only that time which cannot be devoted to any business? How late it is to begin to live just when we must cease to live! What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to postpone wholesome plans to the fiftieth and sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained!
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Seneca (On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas))
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The communists believe that they have found the path to deliverance from our evils. According to them, man is wholly good and is well-disposed to his neighbour; but the institution of private property has corrupted his nature. The ownership of private wealth gives the individual power, and with it the temptation to ill-treat his neighbour; while the man who is excluded from possession is bound to rebel in hostility against his oppressor. If private property were abolished, all wealth held in common, and everyone allowed to share in the enjoyment of it, ill-will and hostility would disappear among men. Since everyoneโs needs would be satisfied, no one would have any reason to regard another as his enemy; all would willingly undertake the work that was necessary.I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot enquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments, certainly a strong one, though certainly not the strongest; but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness, nor have we altered anything in its nature. Aggressiveness was not created by property. It reigned almost without limit in primitive times, when property was still very scanty, and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal, anal form; it forms the basis of every relation of affection and love among people (with the single exception, perhaps, of the motherโs relation to her male child). If we do away with personal rights over material wealth, there still remains prerogative in the field of sexual relationships, which is bound to become the source of the strongest dislike and the most violent hostility among men who in other respects are on an equal footing. If we were to remove this factor, too, by allowing complete freedom of sexual life and thus abolishing the family, the germ-cell of civilization, we cannot, it is true, easily foresee what new paths the development of civilization could take; but one thing we can expect, and that is that this indestructible feature of human nature, will follow it there.
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Sigmund Freud (Civilization and Its Discontents)