the good life
The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the... See more
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The Highly-Effective Rituals That Are Guaranteed to Level Up Your Life in 6 Months (but nobody else is talking abo…
How much more?
How many more quotes do we need to feel okay?
How much more advice before we finally change?
How many poems that almost explain us?
How many more rules about how to be human?
Eventually, you do find something that says exactly what... See more
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And no, I’m not asking you:
to do all 10 exercises right now.
Take the 1 or 2 that seem to be the most relevant to you at this point in time.
And start writing.
In case you want to receive 112 exercises like these in a physical... See more
instagram.com“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward…Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”
- what Krishna tells Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita:
3. Your clutter is just unmade decisions.
Look around your home. That pile of papers? An unmade decision. The box of old cables? An unmade decision. The clothes that don’t fit? Unmade decisions.
Clutter is not just stuff. It is the physical weight of procrastination and indecision. It is the visual noise of “I’ll deal with this later.” Simplifying... See more
Look around your home. That pile of papers? An unmade decision. The box of old cables? An unmade decision. The clothes that don’t fit? Unmade decisions.
Clutter is not just stuff. It is the physical weight of procrastination and indecision. It is the visual noise of “I’ll deal with this later.” Simplifying... See more
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Co-authors Rosamund and Benjamin Zander, on finding the right frame:
“Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.”
“Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.”
" A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play , his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation." — L. P. Jacks
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