Join 📚 Christian Champ's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Christian's read, .
Like a skateboard ridden by a stiff and brittle adult, the words slip from underneath us.
Small Arcs of Larger Circles
Nora Bateson
Once you've distilled your five-second moment down to its essence, ask yourself: What is the opposite of your five-second moment?
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks and Dan Kennedy
But the point is that such immersion is possible, and it undermines the easy claim that “internally” originating sensations have fixed meanings, whereas “externally” originating ones don’t. Besides, if the key criterion for whether something is part of my self is how close to “automatic” my interpretation of the signals it sends are, then what about the case of offspring? My daughters don’t reside within my skin, yet when I see one of them in pain, it causes me to suffer as reliably as my own pain does. The great American psychologist William James wrote, “Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw.” In that sense, he observed, “our immediate family is a part of ourselves. Our father and mother, our wife and babes, are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. When they die, a part of our very selves is gone.”
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise