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also a good case for becoming a connoisseur of something physical you interact with regularly (coffee/tea, food, clothes, architecture, plants, cars, whatever). more to like every day
a good case for getting into the arts/media as a hobby more seriously: there’s always more music, always more books, always more movies, always more paintings, and even the ones you don’t like as a whole have things TO like
recently decided to like mowing the lawn. gets you outside. literally touching grass. making nice patterns. extremely straightforward. meditative like doing a prayer labyrinth
a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people, you can then do what you please.”
Brooke Gladstone • The Trouble With Reality
Arthur Schopenhauer in his aptly titled Studies in Pessimism: “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Brooke Gladstone • The Trouble With Reality
Part of the problem stems from the fact that facts, even a lot of facts, do not constitute reality. Reality is what forms after we filter, arrange, and prioritize those facts and marinate them in our values and traditions. Reality is personal.
Brooke Gladstone • The Trouble With Reality
How happy to see lightning and not think, “Time is fleeting!” —BASHO
Pico Iyer • Autumn Light
Audre Lorde eloquently addressed her thoughts on white guilt at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in 1981: I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of actio
... See moreRobin DiAngelo • White Fragility
“Because the new racial climate in America forbids the open expression of racially based feelings, views, and positions, when whites discuss issues that make them uncomfortable, they become almost incomprehensible.”7 Probing forbidden racial issues results in verbal incoherence—digressions, long pauses, repetition, and self-corrections.