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But some of these concerns—not least, the dilemma of how to steer between the Scylla of vapid negativity and the Charybdis of vacuous cheerleading—become moot when you think back to the impulse that lies behind serious criticism: the impulse to analyze, to explain, to teach, to judge meaningfully.
A Critic’s Manifesto
newyorker.com
In his book Sabbath as Resistance, the Christian theologian Walter Brueggemann describes the sabbath as an invitation to spend one day per week “in the awareness and practice of the claim that we are situated on the receiving end of the gifts of God.” One need not be a religious believer to feel some of the deep relief in that idea of being “on the receiving end”—in the possibility that today, at least, there might be nothing more you need to do in order to justify your existence.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Transformation, when it comes to our thinking, requires the willingness to consider that there might be another path to happiness, to peace—other than through more thinking. There might be a way we can’t yet see and won’t see, as long as we’re relying on thinking to find it. Ultimately, we must be willing to consider the possibility that thinking is not the solution to life and might, in fact, be the problem itself.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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