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The Sentient Mind: Skills and Strategies

I think I could turn and live with animals…I look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition.

They do not lie awake at night and whine about their sins.

Not one is dissatisfied. Not one is demented by the mania of owning things.

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

From Walt Whitman, Song of Myself