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Rituals are infused with meaning. They are charged with significance because they have a crucial underlying purpose, whether it’s putting a small rock on a cemetery headstone to honor the dead, engaging in a rain dance to nourish crops, or taking Communion.
The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment” is the mental discomfort of attempting to lift yourself up by your own bootstraps—to modify your relationship to the present moment in time, when in fact that moment in time is all that you are to begin with.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
single and double prime marks, which are used for measurements. They look like straight quotes, but at an angle:
Clothes for Language
Antonis Tsagaris
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