If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
Thomas CochraneAbout author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: english
- Born: December 14, 1775
- Died: October 31, 1860
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It is within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: the only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
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