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Instead of concerning ourselves with the fact that we feel dissatisfied, not peaceful, and not particularly self-realized, our new perspective encourages us to return to the mystery of the present moment now.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
Here’s a surprising truth it took me ages to grasp: by far the best way to spend more of your life doing meaningful, rewarding and difference-making things is to really feel the deep sense in which **you** **don’t need to do any of that stuff at all.**
The Imperfectionist: Acting Because You Don't Have To
Oliver Burkeman
And we can also lure back the gods of old—the great works that were venerated once before and now can be re-experienced in their sacred worth. To do this requires more than simply canonizing these works on reading lists and classroom syllabi. It requires developing the skills for responding to the manifold senses of the sacred that still linger unappreciated at the margins of our disenchanted world.
All Things Shining
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
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