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The more you chase the ever-receding horizon the further the vertical fades into the distance.
John Jackson: Could we 'Have' Less and 'be' More? John Jackson 2010
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With 'having', life is experienced as a horizontal, as we attempt to be fulfilled by what we amass, we chase an ever-receding horizon of additional newer things.
John Jackson: Could we 'Have' Less and 'be' More? John Jackson 2010
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The more you chase the ever-receding horizon the further the vertical fades into the distance.
John Jackson: Could we 'Have' Less and 'be' More? John Jackson 2010
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With 'having', life is experienced as a horizontal, as we attempt to be fulfilled by what we amass, we chase an ever-receding horizon of additional newer things.
John Jackson: Could we 'Have' Less and 'be' More? John Jackson 2010
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The more you chase the ever-receding horizon the further the vertical fades into the distance.
John Jackson: Could we 'Have' Less and 'be' More? John Jackson 2010
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With 'having', life is experienced as a horizontal, as we attempt to be fulfilled by what we amass, we chase an ever-receding horizon of additional newer things.
John Jackson: Could we 'Have' Less and 'be' More? John Jackson 2010
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"Until our sorry species bombs or gluts itself into oblivion," he writes, "the skirmishing will continue, and what Beethoven and company keep telling us, from the ever-receding yet ever-present past, is that the struggle must continue."
Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht and The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs 2010
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She could gladly postpone all decisions to an ever-receding point on the calendar.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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She could gladly postpone all decisions to an ever-receding point on the calendar.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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She could gladly postpone all decisions to an ever-receding point on the calendar.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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