Sublime

Yet, on reflection, no such rule could possibly exist;

Where in your life or your work are you currently pursuing comfort, when what’s called for is a little discomfort?

It’s only by facing our finitude that we can step into a truly authentic relationship with life.

Oliver Burkeman observes that when employment is insecure, “we must constantly demonstrate our usefulness through frenetic doing.”

“cosmic insignificance therapy”:

wanting to be optimally kind instead of just kind,

Salcedo sees time as a regular kind of “good”—a resource that’s more valuable to you the more of it you command.

The struggle for certainty is an intrinsically hopeless one—which means you have permission to stop engaging in it.

while you might have assumed that complying with a life task would feel oppressive