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We tend to spend our whole lives looking for a way to fix the past so we can have permission to enter the present, only to find out that we didn’t need permission at all. The whole paradoxical catastrophe is tragically ridiculous.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
Zhuangzi understands virtue as manifested by living in accordance with nature. Corruption occurs, according to Zhuangzi, only when one deviates from nature’s path. If nature determines that a person has one arm*,* splayed limbs or a hunched back, the person can embrace these changes and harmonize with them. As Zhuangzi says, “Virtue [takes] no form.”
Opinion | Was This Ancient Taoist the First Philosopher of Disability? - The New York Times
Bryan W. Van Norden
Seneca more wisely asks us to consider that bad things probably will occur, but adds that they are unlikely ever to be as bad as we fear.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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