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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
We need a compelling account of silence, solitude, attention, disciplined engagement, well-considered restraint, vulnerability, and risk. But not for their own sake or for the sake of nebulously resisting the lure of digital technologies, and much less out of a misguided reactionary impulse. Rather, we must come to see these as the necessary skills and requisite virtues for the pursuit of our well-being and that of our neighbors.
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society
While in graduate school and mulling relationship problems, Marc Berman did something that felt faintly ludicrous: He walked up to an oak tree and started talking to it.
Society Needs a Doctor’s Prescription for Nature
Oliver Milman
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