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The peace of mind on offer here is of a higher order: it lies in the recognition that being unable to escape from the problems of finitude is not, in itself, a problem. The human disease is often painful, but as the Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck puts it, it’s only unbearable for as long as you’re under the impression that there might be a cure. Accept the inevitability of the affliction, and freedom ensues: you can get on with living at last.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Here’s my list, because we all have to get down to basics: Be present. Unplug. Feel. Journal. Make art. Dance. Breathe through your nose. Make joy a priority. Connect.
Good Chemistry
Julie Holland
Despite Berry’s veneration of his ancestors, he can be unsparing about their sins. “I am forever being crept up on and newly startled by the realization that my people established themselves here by killing or driving out the original possessors, by the awareness that people were once bought and sold here by my people, by the sense of the violence they have done to their own kind and to each other and to the earth,” he wrote in his 1968 essay “A Native Hill.”
Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age
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