The ignorance that stops you in your tracks has more intelligence behind it than a vast body of knowledge that sends you headlong into the future.


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Memo to a religious founder: Faith is not our incapacity for the negative unless its consequences are outside of our reach.



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Get past the primer and fully into the reaction: What happens when we put ourselves in a position that results in self-loathing just so that we can imagine that others do not hate us? What if the condition for loving oneself required an acceptance that others just might hate us for our self-respect?  How would one feel that hatred?
 

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