Tijn Tjoelker on Substack
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Tijn Tjoelker on Substack
Or that the substance of life is something like water, which I can hold in my hand so long as I cup it gently, but if I clutch at the water, I immediately lose it. And so, in this way, through our failure to see that everything is alive because it flows, we try to possess it, and this is trishna, or grasping. In other words we try to hold on as tig
... See moreAlan Watts • Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969
Instead, I will say that I was thinking about time—how it peels away from us in fractions that don’t always feel like fractions. The slowness of time’s passage, for me, has often depended on what story I can extract from the time spent. What can be told to someone else, which might then be told to someone else. If you are lucky, sometimes minutes f... See more
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
Time is our most irreplaceable asset—we cannot buy more of it. We can only strive to waste as little as possible.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
because the assumption that time is something we can possess or control is the unspoken premise of almost all our thinking about the future, our planning and goal-setting and worrying. So it’s a constant source of anxiety and agitation, because our expectations are forever running up against the stubborn reality that time isn’t in our possession an
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Time is our most irreplaceable asset—we cannot buy more of it. We can only strive to waste as little as possible.