Relationship with self
What made the hours pass like minutes when you were a child? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.” — Carl Jung
Stuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.
You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or think. —Meditations 2.11
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. —Meditations 5.16
the self is no longer a subject but a project . The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé. Knowingly or otherwise, we risk being constantly governed by the question How is what I’m doing rig
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“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way…: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly
I aspire to Isak Dinesen’s way: work a little every day, without hope and without despair. What a way to live! To make! To be!
Sari Azout • Things I'm Thinking About
