It is from our lack of proper content, from our inner emptiness, that we need occupations and distractions. Otherwise we experience boredom, which is nothing else than the feeling of unease that takes hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed in the mirages of life.

— Afrikan Spir Words of a Sage: Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937)

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