Niksen: The Dutch Art of Purposefully Doing Nothing
‘Nothing is harder to do than nothing,’ remarks the author and artist Jenny Odell.10 But to get better at it is to begin to regain your autonomy – to stop being motivated by the attempt to evade how reality feels here and now, to calm down, and to make better choices with your brief allotment of life.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Doing nothing is the ultimate minimalism.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
mindless. The joy of non-doing is that nothing else needs to happen for this moment to be complete. The wisdom in it and the equanimity that comes out of it lie in knowing that something else surely will.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Action in Inaction: The Taoist Philosophy of Wu Wei
Happy Child | ©cotaro70s/Flickr
Rachel Deason
28 September 2017
Anyone who has left something up to fate knows that doing nothing is often the hardest course of action. Yet, according to the Taoist notion of Wu Wei, it is through this inaction that harmony is reached. As the world begins to think a... See more
Happy Child | ©cotaro70s/Flickr
Rachel Deason
28 September 2017
Anyone who has left something up to fate knows that doing nothing is often the hardest course of action. Yet, according to the Taoist notion of Wu Wei, it is through this inaction that harmony is reached. As the world begins to think a... See more
Action In Inaction: The Taoist Philosophy Of Wu Wei
“doing nothing” is of utmost importance, because without them we have no way to think, reflect, heal, and sustain ourselves—individually or collectively. There is a kind of nothing that’s necessary for, at the end of the day, doing something.