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Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom | Aeon Essays
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Yiquan: The Hidden Science of Power
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We start out knowing nothing on the left, learn a lot from books and move to the middle, and then learn enough from experience, if we’re lucky, to end up on the right.
From intuition due to lack of alternatives, to reason, to intuition backed by knowledge.
I think that's where we are: moving past the stranglehold of the dogmatic rational materialist... See more
From intuition due to lack of alternatives, to reason, to intuition backed by knowledge.
I think that's where we are: moving past the stranglehold of the dogmatic rational materialist... See more
Packy McCormick • The Return of Magic
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet … then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
quit brainrot. unfollow trolls. read essays. go down rabbit holes. have a calendar. maintain a todo list. read old books. watch old movies. turn on dnd. walk with intent. eat without youtube. chew more. train without music. plan for 15 mins. execute. organise your desk. take something seriously. read ancient scripts. act fast. find bread. eat... See more
gaurav • Tweet
Farther in the distance, I could even see mighty Brazil nut trees towering over the forest. I looked at it all in a new way. Is nature beautiful if your family dies in it without help? I determined that the beauty in nature is really the beauty of our perception of it. No, it wouldn’t be beautiful without humans to declare it so. But, my God, it
... See moreDaniel L. Everett • Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)
The Ultimate Career Advice: Make Your Work Your Calling
theatlantic.com
• In Genesis, God places Adam “into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” In other words, even in the original paradise—before all the unpleasantness with the snake and the apple—God designs the first human, made in his image, to work, not lie about. The Bible makes no mention of Adam’s daily labor being easy or fun, but clearly it is meaningful; working in the garden is how he lives in the image of his Creator. Hinduism has a very similar teaching: “By performing one’s natural occupation, one worships the Creator from whom all living entities have come into being”