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Sacred Live: Oliver Burkeman on living a meaningful life in the present moment

The Sacred

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The Antidote to Pride

I hope that we are God in some way, you know, our desire not to need help, not to need others. Just how kind of tender and foolish and completely understandable and destructive it is in us. I used to be technically a Christian but temperamentally a stoic because I had internalized one verse in the Bible where Paul says I have learnt to be all fit. The New Testament is in conversation with these ideas, right, they thread together, they're not separable.

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