Andrew Sullivan

[hardblue]

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear.”-- Henry David Thoreau

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[pigshitpoet]

tres cool

and spot on!

[maadmike]

All the words are genial and last ones could be written on everybody's grave, you just have to put appropriate word between'm...

“You never feel completely sad or completely happy, you just feel … kinda satisfied with your ... (debts, plant, students and so on). And then you die. So that’s why I don’t want to get a phone for my kids.”

[maadmike]

"Attached to my phone, I had been accompanied for so long by verbal and visual noise, by an endless bombardment of words and images, and yet I felt curiously isolated. Among these meditators, I was alone in silence and darkness, yet I felt almost at one with them. My breathing slowed. My brain settled. My body became much more available to me. I could feel it digesting and sniffing, itching and pulsating. It was if my brain were moving away from the abstract and the distant toward the tangible and the near

[hardblue]

It is a revolution, as though we can speak of two worlds: the world before the Internet and the world with the Internet (and its gadgets). Still, it might be that we are a little carried away by the new capabilities, and that people will settle down a little once they get used to having these things around.

[maadmike]

"and that people will settle down a little once they get used to having these things around"

I am waiting for the new ones to come - connected right to a brain or at least with a picture right under an eye...