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Letting thoughts come and go without engaging with them or falling under their spell allows us to experience ourselves as the awareness within which the thoughts are appearing, the awareness that is deciding to let the thoughts go.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
In his new book, Robert Talisse, a philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University, agrees with the dissenters that our politically polarized and politically saturated culture is not in good shape. But he disagrees about the solution. “Calls for bipartisanship and cooperation are insufficient,” Talisse writes, “and in a way misguided. More and better politics cannot be the solution . . . because politics is the problem.” Americans are “overdoing democracy in that politics has become practically inescapable,” and hence “we have to put politics in its place.”
Are Americans Overdoing Democracy? | National Review
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