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‘What does it mean that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live?’ – from Mary Oliver’s [*Long Life*](https://t.densediscovery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fa%2F80028%2F9780306814129/1/0100018c7ea4f5e0-fd8f228b-9b6e-4063-8bc8-cab819a64530-000000/4eb0XsY5xotzt2mbncPLvNRTT1wlDUi7nj7NQlSHB8s=331).
269 / ’Tis the Season... For Tending to the Inner Garden of the Soul
Dense Discovery
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
Colier, Nancy
Whatever you wish to call it, there are two interweaving strategies for leaving this desolate place: (1) continually expand the range of your unhooking skills, and (2) connect with something that makes it worthwhile leaving.
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
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