Why You Might Need an Adventure
If you have the resources to spend some time exploring, if you are on to interesting threads of novelty that few other people have, and if you have the spirit to tighten your belt, throw out your map, and explore off-road, then your real job is to do so. It is a grave sin to neglect that kind of cosmic duty. But many more people have the means and ... See more
Wolf Tivy • Quit Your Job
in an impasse, life becomes more real and more interesting, so much so that it is better to have some impossible problems in your life than not to. In an impasse a risk is required; you have to give yourself completely to a new situation though you have no guarantees that your effort will turn out well.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next—and disappear. That’s why it’s important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to e
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