This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.

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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. -Terence McKenna

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My brother is really, really slow.

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In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. -Iyanla Vanzant

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I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on. -Terence McKenna

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I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. — Serena Williams

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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

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I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got. ― Sabrina Ward Harrison

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It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it. ― Haim Shapira

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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. ― Lewis Carroll

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