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Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.


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Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.



You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.



Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.



I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.



Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.



To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them



Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.



What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.



Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.



he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...





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The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.



Fine. If you insist.I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But--I won't enjoy it.

Fine. If you insist.I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But--I won't enjoy it.



As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.



But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?

But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?



Wanting to be accepted is something I like a lot of people can relate to.

Wanting to be accepted is something I like a lot of people can relate to.



Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day.

Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day.



Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.



The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia.

The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia.



Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.




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