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But what do we have more need for, in our whirling mental worlds, than strength and concentration and patience and humility? These are virtues worth aspiring to, especially because they lead to new and greater delights.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
All the forces at play within us and without seem to be centrifugal forces, pulling us apart. I remain interested in understanding the nature of these forces. The critical conversation remains important. But I’m increasingly interested in how we might find and deploy alternative ways of being in the world. What are the practices that will sustain us? Silence may be just such a practice, and we may do well to experiment with whatever possibilities are afforded to us to enter into silence and to allow silence to enter into us.
The Thing That Is Silence
The Convivial Society
The toxins you are ingesting are your own thoughts. The present moment is usually okay, but you are actively injecting it with discontent.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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