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Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Strategy is, what will I do today to work with the systems that are out there, so that tomorrow and the tomorrow after that and the tomorrow after that, I'm going to build a life where I want to live? Where we get trapped is we do something today in the short run because it's an emergency, because I had no choices, because I'm busy or tired, and th

emulate the sparrow, the “wisest of birds.” According to the Zhuangzi, “If its eyes do not spot a suitable place, it will not look twice. If it happens to drop the nut it is carrying, it will simply abandon it and continue on its way. It is wary of people, and yet it lives among them, protected within the altars of grain and soil.”

‘I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”’

“I keep coming back to community as the solution,” he writes.12 To brave shifting conditions, we will have to strive to create communities “in which everyone’s basic needs are met,” because “leaving people out eventually costs everybody.” Interdependence and the social skills that facilitate that connectedness or cooperation are at the heart of Beg

“I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone, because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.”

depth is what separates you on a superficial market