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When we are ‘selving,’ we are abandoning what we actually see, hear, and feel (which is always dissolving, always falling apart) in favor of concepts, which hold together nicely, but which are mere conventions. When we just look at experience; when we observe it closely, we do not discover any selves. In fact, when we observe experience carefully and non-selectively, it does slowly dawn on us that no one is home.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
Do not resign to give up what makes you happy. And don't believe that time management is the answer—it's part of the problem.
[Segmenting time destroys its most valuable quality: flow](https://simone.org/single-tasking/). That 0.01% spark survives not because we've managed our calendar better, but because we've learned to protect what matters.
The next time someone suggests better time management as the solution, remember: your exhaustion isn't a personal failing. It's what happens when **ping culture** treats attention as a resource to be mined rather than a capacity to be nurtured.
The Attention Wars: Why Creative Time Is Now Contraband
Kōdō Simone
Why did Bim allow nothing to change? Surely Baba ought to begin to grow and develop at last, to unfold and reach out and stretch. But whenever she saw them, at intervals of three or five years, all was exactly as before.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
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