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"The freedom of the 'everyday mind' consists rather in not kneeling down in awe. Its mental attitude is better expressed as "sitting unmoveable like an object."

— Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (2022)

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Eros conquers depression. It delivers us from the inferno of the same to th atop, indeed the utopia, of the wholly other.

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