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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
Colier, Nancy
You need the personal density that will hold you firmly until, in your considered and settled judgment, it is time to move. And to acquire the requisite density you have to get out of your transitory moment and into bigger time. Personal density is proportionate to temporal bandwidth.
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
Critical reflection of some kind is inevitable, so it would behoove us to do it well. The best guide I know to readerly judgment is our old friend Auden, who graciously summed up a lifetime of thinking about these matters in a single incisive sentence: “For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don’t like it; I can see this is good, and, though at present I don’t like it, I believe with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don’t like it.”
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
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