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ALAIN DE BOTTON - THE SCHOOL OF LIFE: How To Apply Philosophy To Real Life

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Are You for All That's if I Were Anything That Gives You That New Perspective?

i remember as a student reading about the dionysic festivals of ancient athens. People who want to open our minds to different ways of thinking and feeling have been put in a box, called spirituality or hippies. And i understand that that those kind of labels, and that sometimes the fear and apprehension that lies behind it. Our minds are not merely cool, calm, rational organs that are operating on data from right now. These are ancestral machines that are bathing in their own history,. driven by fears and appetites formed in a past we can hardly remember. We coun hardly put words but this is part of what it means to be a thinking, sentient being. So if you're

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