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Instead of concerning ourselves with the fact that we feel dissatisfied, not peaceful, and not particularly self-realized, our new perspective encourages us to return to the mystery of the present moment now.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
To be thinking is to be alive. Thinking feels like just being. We don’t know that silence and space can even exist between thoughts, that we can exist in the absence of thinking. Furthermore, we don’t know that thoughts can appear and we can choose to decline their invitation, decide not to engage in their content. We don’t know another way of living, other than thinking.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
I note that a new edition of Seneca’s treatise has recently been published by Princeton University Press under the title How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management. Indeed, Princeton has a whole series called “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers.”
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
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