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When the ancient Masters said, “If you want to be given everything, give everything up,” they weren’t using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.
A common reaction to the new Darwinian view of sex is that it makes perfect sense as an explanation for animal behavior—which is to say, for the behavior of nonhuman animals. People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female’s head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don’t see the connection. After all, the man surely knows that it’s only a photo he’s looking at; his behavior may be pathetic, but it isn’t comic.
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
The assassin raised her hands in surrender. “Me, I’m exhausted. There’s just time to enjoy a good sound sleep.” Kaden stared as Pyrre Lakatur rolled onto her back, locked her fingers behind her head, and closed her eyes. “That’s it?” he asked, amazed. “You cross an entire continent to save me, and then just give up?” “Everyone thinks that Rassambur is all about learning to knife people in the belly and poison their soup,” the assassin responded without opening her eyes. “What you really learn there is a pretty basic lesson: Death is inevitable. The god comes for us all.”
The Emperor's Blades
Brian Staveley
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