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Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
-Eric Hoffer
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Spiritual Stagnation Ensues When Man's Environment Becomes

Eric Hoffer
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
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This is my life now. absurd, but unpredictable. not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. if i have lost the meaning of my life, i might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.
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[...] endless action and reaction. those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. inaction is followed by stagnation. stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.
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