lifestyle

What is worthwhile?

He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

Don DeLillo • White Noise

At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.

Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem

gradually discovered that ninety-nine percent of the things I worried about never happened.

Dale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living

In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on... See more

Nadia • Glimpsing God

That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more

Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All

In this new book, Han describes the deleterious effects of that degeneration on storytelling. Storytelling used to bind us communally over the campfire; it connected us to our pasts and helped us imagine hopeful futures. The digital screen has replaced that fire, making us individuals performing factitious versions of ourselves to unseen peers,... See more

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stuartjeffries • The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative

They wander through the winding passages of the shopping malls prompted and guided by a semi-conscious hope of bumping into the very identity badge or token needed to bring their selves up to date,

Zygmunt Bauman • Liquid Life

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.

“Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.”

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C.Neil Strait