Modern Society Quotes - Page 7

• In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sports, Book, Television

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.99, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.

  Charles Bukowski

  Essence, People, Mad

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