“Because without compassion, life has little value.” My Sweet Orange Tree
With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Guns, Germs And Steel
“Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. Book IV
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