Now what?…
Being wise means having more questions than answers.
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Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a p... See more
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art does more than record and reflect the tumultuous realities that present themselves to our senses, or to wonder at them and impose patterns of meaning upon them. It is also a way of marking our brief moment on earth before we hurtle into the past,
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you th
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Any situation where you act is a possibility for active introspection.
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection
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for art to serve social imagination, it has to be organised in ways that allow time for it to be absorbed and adapted, so that it becomes an act of co-creation rather than just an act of consumption or an enjoyable way to pass the evening.15 If it is only an object for the passing gaze, then it is, perhaps, bound to fail. Experiences that are share
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
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The brain is a terrible place to store information.
Humans were born to create, not to remember.
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