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Emotion beats logic. When it comes to the pleasure principle, your feelings tend to overshadow rational thought.
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Patrick King
The lifelong learner is essentially one who has learned to deal with homeostasis, simply because he or she is doing it all the time.
In the second yoga sutra, an ancient text created long before stock markets or even paper money, the sage Patanjali explains that excessive attachment is based on the assumption that the object desired, once attained, will create everlasting happiness. When an object satisfies a desire, it provides a moment of happiness. Because of this moment, our mind makes the possession of objects very important, even indispensable.
It's Not About the Money
Brent Kessel
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