Mindfulness & Wisdom
Topicality is wicked, deeply so. “Fresh” information is a tool of the selfish classes (and be sure there’s a diversity of type) to keep the individual anesthetized, to keep one suspended in a vat of phony immediacy and specious solidarity — the addiction to being informed.
Little in this world is relevantly fresh; and certainly there is nothing fres... See more
Little in this world is relevantly fresh; and certainly there is nothing fres... See more
“But there is a counter measure to this selfishly motivated, transcendental topicality: PATIENCE. Composure, restraint, and a commitment to one’s own long term well being, is like a lead shield to their hyperbolic information system; a thorough interrupter to their insistent momentum.”
Cargo brilliance
David Foster Wallace: "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred"
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
Peter Cundill on the power of perspective:
“I think it may be easier to see solutions if you can distinguish between context and content. If you can place a problem within the framework of the larger universe its dimensions are put into perspective and automatically diminished.”
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Endurance is not resistance but finding a way to move with larger forces.
353 — This week on Cargo
We pay the high price of our own emotional freedom when we allow ourselves to be stranded by others’ temperaments and actions.
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