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Today, we increasingly understand that climate change and other sustainability challenges are internal, relationship crises. They result from modern societies’ story of separation. This story assumes that we are all separate from each other, that some humans are superior to other humans, and that human beings are both separate and superior to the r
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Your true nature is that of infinitive spirit.
The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
(Ramana Maharshi)
“Rather than living every day as if it’s my last, I’ve shifted to a gentler approach of living every day as if it’s my first. I want to wake up and meet the day with the wonder of a newborn, to cultivate childlike qualities like curiosity and play.”
- Suleika Jaquad- The easiest thing is the hardest. It is harder to be simple than it is to be complex.
I find it strange that we humans aren’t able to more clearly detect what’s good for us and what isn’t. There is, of course, as I described above, the addictive element to it. But I think there is also another element, and I believe it has to do with our current way of knowing or, rather, our way of being. It feels like we have prioritized a very ra
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Output per worker increased by almost 300% between 1950 and 2018 in the U.S. The standard American workweek, meanwhile, has remained unchanged, at about 40 hours.
This paradox is especially notable in the U.S., where the average work year is 1,767 hours compared with 1,354 in Germany, a difference largely due to Americans’ lack of vacation time.
Some
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“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.” ― John Cage
Grief, when it comes is nothing like we expect it to be. Joan Didion
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b
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