Living ethically
How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world
Living ethically
If there are only five people who will listen, who will live, who have their faces turned toward eternity, it will be sufficient. Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand, who are fully embalmed in prejudice, who do not want the new, but would rather translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant selves? If I speak strongly,... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova
When you’re first getting to know someone, you don’t want to try to peer into their souls right away. It’s best to look at something together.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
The Distraction Zone is made up of things that you are passionate about but sadly have little proficiency for.
Michael Hyatt • Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
Maxim Leyzerovichx.comIt's my birthday this week! So I made a list of stuff I learned in my 30s.
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Slow media promote Monotasking . Slow Media cannot be consumed casually, but provoke the full concentration of their users. As with the production of a good meal, which demands the full attention of all senses by the cook and his guests, Slow Media can only be consumed with pleasure in focused alertness.