Andreas Vlach
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Andreas Vlach
This is the era of no good choices. Take schooling, for example. Keeping children home robs them of education and socialization. It scars their futures, steals their joys. It makes it impossible for their parents to work, or even to rest. But sending them to school endangers their health, and that of their teachers and their families. The argument
... See moreEzra Klein • There Are No Good Choices
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. —Meditations 5.16
It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot
You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this
... See moreSpirituality is now on demand—Zen “sound baths” by the hour, gamified meditation apps, retreat centers that package enlightenment in a weekend.
We live in a simulacra of the sacred and the copy has murdered the original.
Laura Londonsubstack.comI started to talk about my fears and my hurt. I started questioning what was important to me and why
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver... See more
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