Iris Murdoch

“I don’t believe in life after death. My beliefs really are Buddhist in style. I’ve been very attached to Buddhism. Buddhism makes it plain that you can have religion without God, that religion is in fact better off without God. It has to do with now, with every moment of one’s life, how one thinks, what one is and does, about love and compassion and the overcoming of self, the difference between illusion and reality.”

-- Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch

“I don’t believe in life after death. My beliefs really are Buddhist in style. I’ve been very attached to Buddhism. Buddhism makes it plain that you can have religion without God, that religion is in fact better off without God. It has to do with now, with every moment of one’s life, how one thinks, what one is and does, about love and compassion and the overcoming of self, the difference between illusion and reality.”

-- Iris Murdoch

It's not about you

For some of us, there eventually comes the point when we realize that our interests and our happiness are not the issue, but are mere irrelevancies in the much larger world around us, and that the best thing we can do is just to look around and take in all that life that is swirling around us and try to ignore the pain within.

It's not about you

For some of us, there eventually comes the point when we realize that our interests and our happiness are not the issue, but are mere irrelevancies in the much larger world around us, and that the best thing we can do is just to look around and take in all that life that is swirling around us and try to ignore the pain within.

Economical Suicides

We have covered the increase in suicides in Europe, and it seems that this long economic downturn has also had the same effect in America, with suicides now surpassing deaths by car accidents. The modern world is a fantastic achievement, but in it money is like blood - you gotta have it to live.

(Source: LJ - Daily Mail)

Economical Suicides

We have covered the increase in suicides in Europe, and it seems that this long economic downturn has also had the same effect in America, with suicides now surpassing deaths by car accidents. The modern world is a fantastic achievement, but in it money is like blood - you gotta have it to live.

(Source: LJ - Daily Mail)

Daily Fun

Aww, he looks a lot like old Bo.

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Daily Fun

Aww, he looks a lot like old Bo.

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