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More than ever, families socialize together: Going out to dinner usually means bringing the whole family along. Mothers’ time to themselves and time with adults both dropped by about seven hours a week from 1975 to 2000. Employed mothers’
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“the current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines.”
― Antarctica
― Antarctica
“The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself.”
― Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
― Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
“I tell TAMMY it will be all right. She says what will be all right? I say whatever you are crying about. She says that is exactly what she’s crying about. That everything is all right. That the world isn’t ending. That we’ll never tell each other how we really feel because everything is okay. Okay enough to just sit around, being okay. Okay enough that we forget that we don’t have long, that it’s late, late in this universe, and at some point in the future, it’s not going to be okay. Sometimes”
― How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
― How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“Only this moment, always. We never get to change the past. We never get to know the future. No reason to wish for one place rather than another; no reason to say I wish I were home, or I wish I were in an exotic new place that is not my home. They will all be the same as this place. Here the experience of existing comes clear. This world is our body. Now”
― Antarctica
― Antarctica
“What’s wrong with technology is that it’s not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that. People haven’t paid much attention to this before because the big concern has been with food, clothing and shelter for everyone and technology has provided these. “But now where these are assured, the ugliness is being noticed more and more and people are asking if we must always suffer spiritually and esthetically in order to satisfy material needs.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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