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01c. 1945 AD

Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.

Steve Hagen / quote

02c. 1945 AD

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]

Steve Hagen / quote

03c. 1945 AD

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.

Steve Hagen / quote

04c. 1945 AD

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.

Steve Hagen / quote

05c. 1945 AD

There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.

Steve Hagen / quote

06c. 1945 AD

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

Steve Hagen / quote

07c. 1945 AD

To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.

Steve Hagen / quote

08c. 1945 AD

[F]ocus not on ourselves as a force in charge of the manipulation of others, but on how our lives interpenetrate those of others – and … all creatures of a dynamic universe.

Steve Hagen / quote