Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once... and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you. — Susan Sontag
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What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
it this way as she was washing the lunch dishes: “Isn’t it strange that we prefer the quicksand of somethingness to the firm ground of emptiness?”
Jack Kornfield • Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (Shambhala Classics)
The basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death. Human beings are naturally anxious because we are ultimately helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die. “This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feeli... See more
Ernest Becker • The Denial of Death
In the face of terrifying chaos, a craving need to make sense of it all.