Yeah, fuck those 33 miners who got extracted from the collapsed mine. I bet at least 33 puppies were kicked to death in the same amount of time. What about them?!
I don't know about you, but I'm incapable of omniscient compassion. I need to focus on one thing at a time.
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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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