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As certain as weather coming from the west, the things people know for sure will change. There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
That's the convenience paradox: the more we optimize our lives, the less we actually live them.
We're becoming masters of arrangement rather than action, curators instead of creators. Life risks turning into a series of frictionless transactions where we're always efficiently arriving but never really traveling.
In Praise of Inconvenience: The Hidden Costs of a Convenient World
Simone
By observing the words our mind is speaking to us, we are actively separating from our thoughts, getting them out in front of us, into view—creating an us and an it. In so doing, we’re shifting our perspective so we are now the awareness that sees the thoughts, while the thoughts become objects appearing in front of and within us.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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