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Michael Shermer

"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."

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"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."

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"Don't worry about how people accept you or react to you. Accept everyone with love."

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"Writing is a cerebral journey where the writer molds experience into useful thought capsules and thoughtfully takes recitative inventory of their spiritual depot. The act of personal essay writing is a subtle search to track and discover how a contiguous chain of occurrences links the essayist's case history of rational and irrational behavior. Writing a person's life story fosters acceptance of their prior personal failures and serves to open a doorway to living modestly and harmoniously."

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"Those who want rain, must also accept the mud."

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"I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko."

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"God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, 'Do this and don't do that'- should not be there. Circumstances are a 'scientific circumstantial evidence' ['Vyavasthit']. You should 'settle them with equanimity'."

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"The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left."

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