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The Right Questions: Ten Essential Questions to Guide You to an Extraordinary Life

“Life runs on sunlight. Life rewards cooperation. Life builds from the bottom up. Life banks on diversity. Life recycles everything. Life builds resilience through diversity, decentralization, and redundancy. Life optimizes rather than maximizes. Life selects for the good of the whole system. In short, life creates the conditions conducive to... See more

Thomas Klaffke • Natural Intelligence

Robin Good

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse • 7 highlights

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sari

To buying that envelope, to bumping into strangers, to stepping out, to the fire engines and the great-looking babies. And of course, to the dancing animals. I saw this quote last week via @sambookshelf and was reminded, once again, how much the pandemic forbade our “dancing animals” — the joy one gets chatting with a... See more

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Natalie Audelo

and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness? - Charles Bukowski

Erikc Perez-Perez

How TS Eliot found happiness

Erica Wagner newstatesman.com

Soner Haci

Question the common belief that happiness is the primary purpose of life.

Consider instead that a life aimed at being useful—creating, helping others, and making a difference—could be more fulfilling and meaningful.

Darius Foroux via Glasp

Robin Good

Becoming the Marginalian: After 15 Years, Brain Pickings Reborn

Maria Popova themarginalian.org

Natalie Audelo

Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings

Maria Popova themarginalian.org

Stuart Evans