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Routine is a neurological life hack for efficiency and an unavoidable part of being an adult. But when everything becomes automatic, it’s easy to lose touch with the small moments that once felt sacred.
How to Find Magic in the Ordinary
yana yuhai
The only viable solution is to make a shift: from a life spent trying not to neglect anything, to one spent proactively and consciously choosing what to neglect, in favour of what matters most.
Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
theguardian.com
Clinging to suffering, paradoxically, is a way of trying to take care of ourselves. We’re convinced that the kernel of resolution will appear from somewhere inside the rubble of the problem. But usually the only thing that appears is more suffering…we’re left stuck in the rubble, scavenging for that unfindable gem of relief. So too, continually thinking about what hurts makes us feel that our pain matters, that it didn’t happen for no reason, and that it won’t be forgotten.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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