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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
So I strive to understand the mysteries of the stock exchange while making far less effort to understand the deep causes of suffering.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
I don’t insist that you call it ‘government’—I just want you to state what rules you think are necessary to insure equal freedom for all.”
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
A. K. Coomaraswamy: He...who merely represses desire, fails. It is easy not to walk, but we have to walk without touching the ground. To refuse the beauty of the earth—which is our birthright—from fear that we may sink to the level of pleasure seekers—that inaction would be action, and bind us to the very flesh we seek to evade. The virtue of the action of those who are free beings lies in the complete coordination of their being—body, soul and spirit, the inner and outer man, at one.
The Two Hands of God
Alan Watts
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