Some people need to unplug—for an extended period—just to remember that they happen to be human beings, and that others around them happen to be human beings too.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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