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Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is…

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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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Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more… — Rajneesh
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? — John Templeton
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff
Art is purposiveness without purpose. — Immanuel Kant
When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've… — Dean Koontz
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a… — Georges Canguilhem
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. — Rick Warren
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. — Ambrose Bierce
The highest benevolence acts without purpose. — Laozi
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity,… — R. J. Anderson
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue… — Khalil Gibran

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