“In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.”
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.