“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.