The sharing of experiences is what quotes represent to me. Someone’s distillation of their context in time and place, trying to capture the essence of a moment or feeling.
Like Salinger writes, we can learn from the records of those who came before us. Shared human experience, beautiful stuff, freeing us from the boundaries of the self, a bird flying free.
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Ian Cook is the Founder of Alva Dean Consulting & the Lawrence Psychedelic Society, and author of VISHUDDHA - As I think, so I feel, then I act
