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#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Chris Matakas

Top 10 Best Quotes

“It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.”

“The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.”

“Your greatest attribute, that which allows you to accomplish most in life and the most treasured aspect of your being will often be the source of your greatest suffering.”

“Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.”

“The only permanent aspect of creation is constant impermanence.”

“I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.”

“Everything is relative, including relativity.”

“The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.”

“We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.”

“Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.”

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