hemporrhoids

philosophybits:

“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people’.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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abiding-in-peace:

“Still the mind. You still the mind by not reacting. By watching, by looking, by seeing but not reacting. You sit in the silence observing your mind thinking. Observing your thoughts. Observing your feelings. And you leave them alone. You no longer try to change anything. You stop following your thought patterns. As we discussed before you “Drop it!” Whatever comes to you, you simply drop it! You no longer go along with your thoughts. You catch yourself every time the thoughts start thinking. You keep remembering to catch yourself. To catch yourself thinking.”

— Robert Adams

philosophybits:

“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”

— Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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