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Present

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Exciting breakthroughs of 21st C will not occur cos of tech but cos of an expanding concept of what it means to be human-John Naisbitt

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Retirement is not to think about work; retirement is not having to think about anything.

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@Wealth_Theory Mindfulness

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@jamesg_oca Keep questioning! Beauty lies in exploring that Q while knowing that there is nothing at the end of that tunnel. 🙂

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"We could be somebody's video game right now. Whose avatar are you?"
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[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum, born on this day in 1847, on how to live with our human fragility https://t.co/nxssuQMREN

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Unlearning

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Thinking consists of search and inference. We search for certain objects and then we make inferences from and about them.

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I am happiest, when I don’t know what’s coming next.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Tsundoku = Japanese for leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other unread books. And other wonderfully untranslatable words from around the world, illustrated: https://t.co/XYxD5nYMVU

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Changing the world starts with changing the sheets.

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@jumlanath For sure

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I’m trying to be alone without feeling lonely. And it’s working!

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Boring beats sexy!

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@ShamikaRavi Poetic ☀️

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@technocrypto Thanks for sharing this. This led me to think more about the psychology of donations a person makes. I know it’s super personal but trying to see if there is any common thread among the motivations to donate.

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@chaitp They marching into boundaries of the living!

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Subtle is much easier to miss than shiny. The real beauty lies in the details!

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The desire for positive experience is itself a negative experience.And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."- Friedrich Nietzsche

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A page from- The book of life by J.Krishnamurti. I revisit this book quite often and every time it’s a different experience.