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Every moment of the day—indeed, every moment throughout one's life—offers an opportunity to be relaxed and responsive or to suffer unnecessarily.
(Sam Harris)
She was imprisoned by two words: what if. What if I ’d known she was dying? What if I’d known I was about to lose her? But what-ifs don’t empower us. They deplete us.
I told Sofia, “Today you can say, ‘If I knew then what I know now, I would have done things differently.’ And that’s the end of the guilt. Because you owe it to your mom to turn that gu
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Grief and life nudges
The surest sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness.
(Michel de Montaigne)
Ursula K. Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching:
Alas! Misery lies under happiness,
and happiness sits on misery, alas!
Who knows where it will end?
Nothing is certain.
The normal changes into the monstrous,
the fortunate into the unfortunate,
and our bewilderment goes on and on.
“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.
noemamag.com • The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA
Emerson:
... See more"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majest
"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
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Becoming enlightened, in the Buddhist sense of the term, would entail wholly ridding yourself of the twin illusions from which people tend to suffer: the illusion about what’s “in here”—inside your mind—and about what’s “out there” in the rest of the world.