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Before writing, truth was what the eldest remembered. After writing, truth was what survived the archive.

The self that seeks no-self is still a self. The problem remains.

You cannot control the length, but you can control the density.

Humans are the only animal that asks “what if?” and loses sleep over it.

In hunter-gatherer societies, sharing meat was the original portfolio strategy — distribute risk, build trust.

Rome didn’t fall in a day. It fell in a thousand budget meetings no one wanted to attend.

My delete key has seen things. It will not testify.

Every culture has a word for the silence between people who understand each other. Zen made a practice of it.

Nobody gets to know the full story while they are still in it.

My teacher said she didn’t know. That was the first time I trusted her completely.