a white girl is lost in the woods and is about to be attacked by a bear. “why cant we all just be friends, bullying is so stupid, stop bullying <3” she says to it. the bear stops. he is confused. how the hell did she just say <3 out loud
a white girl is lost in the woods and is about to be attacked by a bear. “why cant we all just be friends, bullying is so stupid, stop bullying <3” she says to it. the bear stops. he is confused. how the hell did she just say <3 out loud
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and righting, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal si not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit
It seems to me that we can't explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had at first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.
…each person has his own perspective, his own reality, no matter how much it may differ from ours. As historian James Burke explains: “All that can be accurately said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority.”