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17 Ideas

17 Ideas

17 Ideas That Changed My Life - Coffee Table Edition 17 Ideas That Changed My Life - Coffee Table Edition
17 Ideas That Changed My Life - Coffee Table Edition

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  • "I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."

    — Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

  • "In the 21st century, religion isn’t the opium of the masses — being entertained without being engaged and challenged is."

    — Caveat Magister, Turn Your Life Into Art

  • "People don’t want to be millionaires—they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy."

    — Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

  • We are more struggling to survive than to thrive, more just “getting through” or trying to get to the top than finding out what is really at the top or was already at the bottom.

    — Richard Rohr, Falling Upward

  • "What he does not know seems to increase in geometric progression to what he knows. Steadily he approaches the point where what is unknown is not a mere blank space in a web of words but a window in the mind, a window whose name is not ignorance but wonder."

    — Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

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