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“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to imagine is what capitalism has done to our perception of time via clocks. It now seems embedded into our very psychology to view time as a commodity that can be spent or wasted.
from The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA by noemamag.com
- If you want a recipe for unhappiness, spend your time accumulating a lot of money and let your health and relationships deteriorate.
from 3-2-1: A recipe for unhappiness, the most valuable items in my home, and managing limiting beliefs by James Clear
As awful as these events have been, I am no longer struck by their horror. They all seem to be the near-inevitable, direct effects of how we are running our political economies. I am more struck by our slow ability to react.
from End the Horror, Let the Crisis Change You by Spencer R. Scott
To put it simply, if we are going to let corporations be “persons” and afford them special privileges and protections due to that personhood, then it makes sense to make our natural resources legal persons as well.
Corporations depend on these natural resources, and we have done a poor job as humanity of protecting these natural resources from abuse
... See morefrom What if We Gave Nature Legal Rights? by Matt Orsagh from Degrowth is the Answer
- "In my view, the realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life."
from Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harriss
What the Dzogchen teachings make clear, however, is that thinking about what is beyond thought is still thinking, and a glimpse of selflessness is generally only the beginning of a process that must reach fruition. Being able to stand perfectly free of the feeling of self is the start of one’s spiritual journey, not its end.
from Waking Up by Sam Harris
Sadly, in real life, bad things happen for no reason every single day, and sometimes they happen at global scale.
from COVID Still Makes Everybody a Little Bit Crazy by Freddie deBoer
- Silence is not just the absence of noise but the presence of truth.
- Emotionally we have many problems, but these problems are not actual problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views.
from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki