Tag: stillness
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OPW: Matthieu Ricard on Busyness
I’ve talked about Matthieu Ricard’s excellent Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill twice before. This bit is about how we’re all so afraid to slow down. “Living it up” has become the leitmotif of modern man–a compulsive hyperactivity without any downtimes, no gap of unscheduled time, lest we end up alone with…
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How To Spend a Do-Nothing Day
Sarah Murray It’s not as easy as it sounds, doing nothing. It’s too easy to think of all that you could be doing. All that you should be doing. In a country that seems to possess a cultural bias against stillness, doing nothing can feel dangerous. Immoral even. It will also help, if you want…