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POPS Albert Einstein Quotes on Life more: "What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know an answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life." - Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934. "So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore." but he also said: "I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
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POPSWhen you meet the Buddha on the road, shoot him. sounds violent but is accepted there is even a book with that title the same thing could be applied to all great spiritual teachers (no such thing as K's teachings....there is only the teaching) its like someone said if you put all the great teachers in a room together they would agree on everything whereas if you put their followers to gether they'd disagree on everything
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POPS8 Destructive thinking patterns To change your thinking pattern you have to Recognise Be aware Slowly change and introduce a new thinking pattern Keep working on all your destructive thinking patterns Change your life with your new way of thinking
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POPSThe life-giving power of literature
I used to get bored out of my brain before I started reading I could never latch on to it to easily till I found words of wisdom and writing that could be applied to life also learning about the outside world/universe through factual writing like national geographic and the guardian newspaper has really opened a lot of doors for life,conversation,enjoyment and distraction reading offered answers to the meaning of life and the universe which had seriously distressed me beforehand the quote from volataire sums it up: Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day." — Voltaire this is particulary true in the days of crappy prime time tv shows and hyped up media I also read somewhere about the calming effect good reading material promoting creative thought can have on ones nerves which I found very true oh and the source goodreads is awesome che
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POPSWhat life is.. the desire bit sounds a bit funny to me as krishnamurti talked about the problem of desire