Interesting.
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30/ You can strip away rituals up to the limit of your mindfulness, staying on the edge of manic-depression. This is being a sociopath.
37/ A culture cannot be both compassionate and beautiful at once without ceasing to grow. To be a sociopath is to recognize this.
39/ A culture that chooses to grow is one that systematically devalues beauty and resists the allure and comfort of pricelessness.
42/ Those who choose growth tell another kind of story, about an expanding zone of mindfulness that defines the superhuman.
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