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Your goal is to be able to say on the day before you die that you have fully become yourself.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
The whole area of social conventions is one in which we can experience all kinds of suffering. Yet often with just a little reflection we can recognize the emptiness of some convention that we have reified, and this realization can bring some freedom.
Seeing That Frees
Rob Burbea
But you need context. Let’s try the ending again, writ continentally. Here is a land. It is ordinary, as lands go. Mountains and plateaus and canyons and river deltas, the usual. Ordinary, except for its size and its dynamism. It moves a lot, this land. Like an old man lying restlessly abed it heaves and sighs, puckers and farts, yawns and swallows. Naturally this land’s people have named it the Stillness. It is a land of quiet and bitter irony.
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
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