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Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES ...more

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People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing....more

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People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not ...more

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Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.

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Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keep...more

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

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I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

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You can’t burn down a made-up place.

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I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

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I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of ...more

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In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.