Play Slow
Whatever we had in mind (consciously or subconsciously) isn’t what’s happening. Instead, it’s more difficult, overwhelming, or dull than we’d envisioned.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
The biggest difference between a game that someone else designed for us to play and our daily life is *structure*. Life is very vague and open ended, which makes it potentially ultra-interesting but in practice often dull and frustrating. Because we don’t see the structure
Deswegen Faszination mit Astrologie, Tarot etc.?
Kevin Gilbert
McLuhan noted that “when information moves at the speed of signals in the central nervous system, man is confronted with the obsolescence of all earlier forms of acceleration, such as road and rail. What emerges is a total field of inclusive awareness. The old patterns of psychic and social adjustment become irrelevant.”
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Disorders of Our Collective Consciousness
Das neuzeitliche Pathos des Neuen löst das Sein in den Prozess auf. Unter den Bedingungen des Neuen ist kein kontemplatives Leben möglich. Kontemplation ist Wiederholung. Das Pathos des Handelns, das sich nun mit der Emphase des Neuen verbindet, setzt viel Unruhe in die Welt.
Byung-Chul Han • Vita Contemplativa
“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
In his work ‘On the Meaning of Life’ (1927), Schlick writes: ‘[T]he deification of work as such, the great gospel of our industrial age, has been exposed as idolatry.’ He argues that true meaning in life can be found only in those things that ‘exist for their own sake and carry their satisfaction in themselves,’ only in ‘free, purposeless action …
... See more