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We all depend on one another for all kinds of things, don’t we? We depend on the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. Interdependence. That’s fine! We set up society this way and we allot different functions to different people for the welfare of everyone, so that we will function better and live more effectively—at least we hope so. But to d

Watchfulness is a contemplative practice that awakens and refines the silent witness within each of us. It is free of all ego strategies that hold onto what we like or push away what we don’t like. It is a grounding, vigilant receptivity. This witness, that which is aware of the afflictive emotion, that which is aware of clinging to it or fleeing f

In assenza di un’impossibile uguaglianza, ha stabilito con Julie un rapporto alla pari fra due esseri umani raccontandole dei suoi fidanzati e dei suoi reportage in paesi che Julie non aveva mai nemmeno sentito nominare.

it wasn’t until I processed his work that I fully understood the important role loneliness plays in our lives. He explains that as members of a social species, we don’t derive strength from our rugged individualism, but rather from our collective ability to plan, communicate, and work together.

Seventh Letter