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Perhaps it goes without saying that the internet makes this all much more agonizing, because it promises to help you make better use of your time, while simultaneously exposing you to vastly more potential uses for your time—so that the very tool you’re using to get the most out of life makes you feel as though you’re missing out on even more of it.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
It will probably be helpful in fact. But when the patently fabricated nature of countries is not recognized, the concept of ‘this country’, or ‘my country’, can gain an overwhelming force and solidity in human minds. The belief in the country as something real can give rise to a strength and rigidity of feeling beyond even the biological impulse for survival. How much violence and suffering in human history has there been with roots in this reification? How much willingness to kill and to die dependent on such a belief?
Seeing That Frees
Rob Burbea
Now, we invite you to stop the addiction to controlling other people. We invite you to stop centering your life on seeking approval or avoiding disapproval. Notice how you are controlling and jockeying for approval and drop these patterns first for a minute. Then go without them for a day, then one day at a time thereafter. Others have done it, and you can, too. We want you to make the discovery that there is a completely lovable essence at the center of you that is beyond all your strivings.
Conscious Loving
Gay Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks
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