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So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage of opposing winds? He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
Like a dream, the world of waking experience does not exist independently of our experience of it. The daytime practices in preparation for lucid nighttime dreaming may help begin to wake you up to the nature of your experienced world. The most effective method of learning to achieve lucidity is to develop a “critical-reflective attitude” toward your state of consciousness by asking yourself whether or not you are dreaming while you are awake.
The Attention Revolution
B. Alan Wallace Ph.D.
When choosing between sure things and gambles, people’s desire to avoid loss exceeded their desire to secure gain.
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
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