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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84 (Vintage International)
the acquisition of language has waylaid, or even kidnapped, our wanting (what, we may wonder, is the transformation involved in eventually putting words to wants?).
Adam Phillips • On Giving Up
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
Neediness is an anti-aphrodisiac
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If sugar is a counterfeit for spiritual sweetness, then artificial sweeteners such as saccharin and aspartame are a counterfeit of a counterfeit. They represent a lie to the body, and reinforce an experience of the world in which appearance is bereft of substance.
Charles Eisenstein • The Yoga of Eating - Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self
These are, of course, material needs we cannot do without. Profound suffering accompanies their absence. But there are other critical needs which are nonmaterial in nature and thus cannot be simply manufactured and distributed. Your list and mine of what these might be will differ in the details of the enumeration, but I suspect we would both agree... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Ill With Want
These events are not present now.