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open.spotify.comThe image that stayed with me from Welwood’s work is being a big tent at a festival. The life inside it is the life inside us always at play, but we’re also the container that protects that life from the elements with wide open sides that enable an ongoing interplay with the world. We’re tied to the earth, but constantly expanding in all... See more
Instead, I simply want to posit one idea for your consideration: Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention.1
In other words, what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this... See more
In other words, what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this... See more
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
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• Conventionally, right speech means you pay attention to your speech, noticing if there are occasions where you are not exactly being truthful, you’re being harsh, or what you’re saying is divisive. Or maybe it’s just idle small talk, not amounting to much.
• My teacher said, “This is all good. But what will help you most of all is to taste silence.” I asked him why. He said, “When you learn how to live in even a little bit of silence and feel the beauty of it, the sacredness of it, then as soon as you open your mouth, you realize you’re wrong. No matter what you say, even if you use the most refined speech, it’s a crude instrument for expressing the deep experiences of being alive.”
• The more you listen and become sensitive to your speech, the more you taste silence. And the more you drink and taste the beauty of silence—real stillness—sometimes you don’t even want to speak. If you do speak, you want to say something that, in a sense, doesn’t sully the silence. Put another way, you hear when your speech is off, when there are false notes. You become more sensitive both in noticing what is not true and in being vulnerable, fragile
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Philosophize This! - Episode #086 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 1 - Freedom
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Now, Plato and Aristotle believed that there is an essence to every object including you guessed it human beings even you This essence is whatever makes you you If it was taken away from you you be someone or something else Now this essence is typically... See more
Philosophize This! - Episode #086 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 1 - Freedom
đź’ MOMENT
Now, Plato and Aristotle believed that there is an essence to every object including you guessed it human beings even you This essence is whatever makes you you If it was taken away from you you be someone or something else Now this essence is typically... See more