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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Russell’s impersonal interests

Maria reposts this frequently. I transcribe it frequently. It's the most concise statement of wisdom I've found, right up there with his "love is wise, hatred is foolish" capsule to the future. Age gracefully. Be happy. Release ego. Merge.

"Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life."

Maria Popova
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell on how to grow old: https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/how-to-grow-old-bertrand-russell/

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