Game Boy
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Game Boy
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more
Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
The importance of patience and cultivation in well-doing, emphasizing the long, invisible process between planting and reaping.
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Eugene Peterson suggests that the person who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed.
If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes in my garden tonight.
There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping.
During
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