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[the visual monkey @digitalshaman_]

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What if carrying the cross is actually light...

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"We don’t go from “wrong” to “right” once we discover the capital-T Truth.
Rather, we go from partially wrong to slightly less wrong,
to slightly less wrong than that,
to even less wrong than that,
and so on."

-@markmanson

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No one.
Now one.

@robertwrighter

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
- Sigmund Freud

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“The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering.”
― @markmanson

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"Writing is the geometry of the soul."
- Plato

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"Decentralization doesn't mean the absence of leaders but the abundance of them" - @balajis

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"One man who stopped lying could be down a tyranny."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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"Love - and do what you want".

- St. Augustine

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"Man is a being in search of meaning"
- Plato

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Ernest Becker thought religion is a psychological trick to escape death.

Actually, ideology is the psychological mechanism to escape the ultimate unknown.

Religion is the antidote.

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Jung knew about the modern dangers.

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Christ is the body of playing positive sum games all the time.

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#GodofWarRagnarok is a virtual compensation of the inner destruction will.

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A feeling of unbounded interdependence is an invitation to the ultimate responsibility.

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@Sams_Antics We already had that discussion.

I favor Jesus over Buddha. That is my take.

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Enlightenment is not transcendence of ego, but Integration of ego for the service of others.

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@ElijahBallingxr @goth600 External storage

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Ideologies are a culture adaption mechanism.

Scale is the big issue.

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Maturity is to integrate childishness.