It used to be that you read a great book or piece of poetry and quoted from it to underscore a point. Now you just google "famous quotes by xyz or for an abc occasion"
Going by the amount of wisdom being spouted and re-circulated by people on Facebook, I'd assume we'd be a happier lot, and possibly that the collective wisdom today far exceeded what the Buddha had at his time. Yet we see him as enlightened.... I wonder why ?.... Perhaps we don't take ourselves seriously enough ? We need to be "told" ?
Is the concept of original thought a misnomer ?
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