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'Will it bring pleasure, or happiness?'The Dalai Lama

Hunter-gatherer's "proverb":  "the best way to store food is in another man's stomach."

‘ . . . the automatic cultural man – a man as confined by culture, a slave to it, who imagines he has an identity if he pays his insurance premium, that he has a control of his life if he guns his sports car or works his electric toothbrush.’Earnest Becker in his book, ‘The Denial of Death’

‘When we try to get people to like us they like us more than we do.’Proverb.

‘. . . it is important to totally give yourself permission to feel. And then feel it. Strange things happen when we feel our feelings. They can morph into another feeling and often we have a feeling of relief.’Gay McKinley, psychologist

‘Peace is not only in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. Peace is in the midst of things as they are, when there is calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.’ (Author unknown)