There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things
Interpretation
Great pain is the only true evil; everything else is subjective and based on our perspective.
This quote suggests that the only genuine evil we encounter in life is significant pain, while all other sufferings or troubles are subjective and can be perceived differently depending on our outlook. It emphasizes the importance of perspective in shaping our experiences and understanding the nature of our challenges.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational talk about how perspective can change our experience of challenges.
It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.
Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
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