“Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to and end. Click … OFF.”
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” No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That’s all. “
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Read quotes...Tom Robbins – Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Do you know why young males, especially, love, simply love, to see things blow apart?
” It’s freedom, ” said Switters brightly. ” Freedom from the material world. Subconsciously, people feel trapped by our culture’s confining buildings and its relentless avalanche of consumer goods. So, when they watch all this shit being demolished in a totally irreverent and evil-may-care fashion, they experience the kind of releaser the Greeks used to get from their tragedies. The ecstasy of psychic liberation.”
Read quotes...The Tibetan Book of the Dead – The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between
“Human life is characterized as being midway between sates of excessive pain and states of excessive pleasure. A being assumes human rebirth from life in other forms by accumulating a vast amount of merit, through deeds of giving, moral interacting, and tolerating, and an equally vast amount of intelligence, through long efforts of developing critical wisdom and penetrating concentration.”
Read quotes...Jon Krakauer – Into the Wild
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
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