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The fact is, we don’t experience the mystery of life by ‘working through’ our perturbation. We just experience it. We simply decide to experience life, without judgment or expectation. A moment’s lapse is a moment’s lapse. The reason our occasional, alienating thoughts and feelings bother us is because we think we should be bothered by them.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
Now it needs to have a motor because you can’t manage your time and you need to squeeze in a ride before sunset? THIS IS NOT MY PROBLEM. The world does not owe you a good time. Maybe take a lesson from the roadies you’re always making fun of and *ride your bike in the morning* like someone with a life.
Say what you will about roadies, but at least they’re not lazy.
Evil Is as Evil Does
Eben Weiss
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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