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They tell us that ‘God’ is not an idea contained in a form of words but a way of being towards others and towards Being itself. Reverent. Expectant. Wordless. Never controlling, because love and goodness cannot be compelled. We should do good for its own sake as if God did not exist.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy
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Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
James Williams analyzes the impact of digital technologies on human attention in the "attention economy," arguing that they often undermine individual freedom and self-regulation by prioritizing engagement over meaningful goals.
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