Join 📚 Armand's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Armand's read, .
Perhaps a more common example of such life-or-death forms of bondage is found in those persons who resort to expensive medical strategies to be cured of life-threatening illness. They, too, seem to be giving life away in order to win it back. So also are those who observe special diets or patterns of life designed to prolong their youth and to postpone aging and death indefinitely; they hate their life in this world now in order that they may have it later. And just as with slaves, the life they receive is given to them by others: doctors, yogis, or their anonymous admirers.
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Further, if care is not taken, the habit for most is that the mind gets swept up by the perspectives of a hindrance when it is present. We believe what they say, their ‘take’ on our selves and the world. It is as if a hindrance is like a seed that has tiny hooks, and these hooks are looking for something, anything, to sink into, to suck sustenance from. When they find something, then they can grow and the whole complex of the hindrance and the thing they have hooked into grows too.
Seeing That Frees
Rob Burbea
The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise