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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.”
― Annie Wood Besant, Annie Besant: An Autobiography

“The English tongue is employed because it offers the most widely-diffused medium for conveying the truths which it had become her duty to place before the world.”
― Helena P Blavasky, Works of H. P. Blavasky 31 Illustrated Books w/ links

“All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.”
― David Bohm, The Limits of Thought: Discussions between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm

“Peace occurs when you don’t turn your observations into problems. The first step in any behavior is observation. You notice a cue, a it of information, an event. If you do not desire to act on what you observe , then you are at peace.
Craving is about wanting to fix everything. Observation without craving is the realization that you do not need to fix anything. Your desires are not running rampant. You do not crave a change in state. Your mind does not generate a problem for you to solve.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones