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We tend to spend our whole lives looking for a way to fix the past so we can have permission to enter the present, only to find out that we didn’t need permission at all. The whole paradoxical catastrophe is tragically ridiculous.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
But what do we have more need for, in our whirling mental worlds, than strength and concentration and patience and humility? These are virtues worth aspiring to, especially because they lead to new and greater delights.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
Transformation, when it comes to our thinking, requires the willingness to consider that there might be another path to happiness, to peace—other than through more thinking. There might be a way we can’t yet see and won’t see, as long as we’re relying on thinking to find it. Ultimately, we must be willing to consider the possibility that thinking is not the solution to life and might, in fact, be the problem itself.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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