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Our interexistence assures that there is an effect for every intention, action, decision and word. For good or for evil, the people we are in both private and in public, take on life or death and collectively create the world we live in.


Mac MacKenzie


#peace #philosophy #death

Seeing the moving handmill, Kabir wept and said, "Alas, no one has survived the pressure of the two millstones (of the heavens and the earth). They left all their mighty empire and pomp and show behind them and but for a handful of dust no trace remains of their existence. Nobody knows about them or about what happened to them after their death -- what insects ate them up and how they fared with God. Thus alone shall one realize that this world is a transitory place and man has nothing to gain from it; it is a puppet show. Thus alone shall one find peace.


Mir Amman


#death

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.


Carl Jung


#darkness #enlightenment #light #imagination

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.


Don DeLillo


#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death

...if she didn't learn to stop her mind racing on ahead of her she'd end up running into a mountain made of her own imaginings.


Kate Morton


#imagination

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#meaning-of-life #philosophy-literature #death

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody. He was. He was going to shake hands with death. He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been. ("3 Kills For 1")


Cornell Woolrich


#death #death-penalty #death-sentence #electric-chair #execution

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.


Jean-Paul Sartre


#definition #existence #finality #life #death

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.


Tahir Shah


#enlightenment #india #travel #varanasi #business

Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.


Douglas Adams


#intelligence






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