you can't hoard life
The kind of feeling you get once you’re no longer grasping and clutching at the moment [...] but stepping fully into it, experiencing yourself as a part of it, *being* it
you can't hoard life
There’s a trap when letting AI improve your efficiency and productivity. By heavily optimizing your daily life, you lose the chance of serendipity. If there are no cracks in your schedule, nothing unsuspecting, unusual, or surprising can happen. You think this is good, but it’s only good if your routine already considers everything your life can... See more
Alberto Romerosubstack.comKnowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
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Why is it so much easier to add than to remove? Maybe because we attach our identity to what is visible. But there is a difference between the ornamentation that defines our style and the vestigial burdens we carry.
Remember those who did the invisible work of removing. Their legacy was not to build a sand castle, but to care for the beautiful beach... See more
Remember those who did the invisible work of removing. Their legacy was not to build a sand castle, but to care for the beautiful beach... See more
stephango.com • What Can We Remove?
A circle of friends, a stable mind and better creative skills are all very useful for a happy life! But happiness consists in taking pleasure from time spent with those friends; from relishing the absence of anxiety that comes with a calmer mind; or from putting those creative skills to use – from cashing in the resources, you might almost say,... See more
The Imperfectionist: The power of 15 minutes (and other ideas)
any attempt at a meaningful existence is undermined if your main focus is always on increasing your access to things – even if the “things” in question are wonderful experiences, deep relationships, and so forth, as opposed to sports cars and jewelery.
The Imperfectionist: The power of 15 minutes (and other ideas)
In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on... See more