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By the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the religious impulse behind these regimens had been long forgotten. The monastery gave way to the factory. Ritual dissolved into routine.
Routine Maintenance, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
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Montaigne then reveals a hidden door, suggesting that we might escape by learning to get along without any such opinion. He condenses this thought into a skeptical motto, Que sçay-je?, “What do I know?”—the motto he had inscribed on that medallion bearing the image of scales.
You probably found that after putting it to music, your thought isn’t hooking you as much. And notice you haven’t challenged the thought; you haven’t tried to get rid of it, debated whether it’s true or false, or tried to push it away and replace it with a positive thought. So what happened? By taking the thought and putting it to music, you saw its “true nature”; you realized that, like the lyrics of a song, it is nothing more or less than a string of words.
The Happiness Trap
Harris, Russ
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