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The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
“In place of occasional experiences of depth that renew and satisfy us,” I observed, “we are simply given an infinite surface upon which to skim indefinitely.”
L. M. Sacasas • What You Get Is the World
How can we possibly transpose these notions of experiential living to our market society, to our transactional culture of business? Where do we begin?
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
As artists, we seek to restore our childlike perception: a more innocent state of wonder and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival. Our filter inevitably reduces Source intelligence by interpreting the data that arrives instead of letting it pass freely. As the vessel fills with these recast fragments, relationships are created with the
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
This thick immanence is compensated for by the shifting present, always confronted by the new. We can concede to the immanent frame, and the lack of transcendence, because the present has been compressed, making it short. We’re distracted in the present from the flatness of our lives, without transcendence, by the fact that our social lives are so
... See moreAndrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
