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Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his…

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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…

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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your… — Hans Bender
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. — Lord Byron
I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot.… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and… — Epicurus
Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — Richard Dawkins
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world… — John Searle
We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge. — Saint Augustine
The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a… — Pope Paul VI
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the… — Thomas Jefferson

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