If you clear the finite games from your body, it stops keepi...

If you clear the finite games from your body, it stops keeping the score

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A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse

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“Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.”

Only that which can change can continue: this is the principle by which infinite players live.

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The rules of a finite game are the contractual terms by which the players can agree who has won.

Infinite players regard their wins and losses in whatever finite games they play as but moments in continuing play.

“This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.”

– Alan Watts

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The human mind wants to “win” whatever game is being played.