Philosophy 06 (May 26 - Dec 27)

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Achieving Ease

We must learn the difference between the ease of getting our way and the ease that comes with wisdom.
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Tuere Sala, “Stop Fixing, Start Practicing”

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Sitting with Uncertainty

It’s much easier to move toward the comfort of a conclusion, than to sustain uncertainty.

But there’s something worth pursuing in refusing conclusion.

- Katie Kitamura, “On Uncertainty, Midlife and the Beauty of Boredom”

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The Deepest You

All that side of life that you call unconscious, unknown, impenetrable is unconscious, unknown, impenetrable because it’s really you.

In other words, the deepest you is the nothing side, the side that you don’t know.

- Alan Watts, “Emptiness and Nothingness”

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The Liberation of Defeat

The plane has already crashed. You’re already stranded on the desert island, with nothing but old airplane food to subsist on, and no option but to make the best of life with your fellow survivors.

Very well, then: Here you are. Here we all are.

Now . . . what might be some good things to do with your time?

- Oliver Burkeman, “It’s Worse than You Think”

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The Real Question

The real question is not only what our actions will bring us later.

It is what our actions are turning the mind into now.

- Cem Sen

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Mindful Steps

When we make mindful, loving and peaceful steps, we do it not just for our own healing and nourishment but for Mother Earth, for our parents, our ancestors, and all beings.

- Tue Nghiem, “Restoring Myself, Touching the Earth”