10/ Somehow at some point I started thinking of these abstract concepts as first order realities, more real in fact than the physical world
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12/ This was my gateway to Buddhism: the world as momentary manifestations of universal forces, making attachment superfluous
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13/ my GF just commented on this tweetstorm: "it's true, but convoluted." Exactly my point
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reading literary fiction is a good antidote to this tendency
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fiction has helped me by letting me peer into others' self-talk, which is usually about practical concerns & not abstract
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not quite what I meant. Good *literary* fiction is all about forcing abstraction leaks that tend not to be fixable
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