“What I can confirm, though, is that if you can adopt the outlook we’re exploring here even just a little—if you can hold your attention, however briefly or occasionally, on the sheer astonishingness of being, and on what a small amount of that being you get—you may experience a palpable shift in how it feels to be here, right now, alive in the flow of time.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“We tend to speak about our having a limited amount of time. But it might make more sense, from Heidegger’s strange perspective, to say that we are a limited amount of time. That’s how completely our limited time defines us.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
“For as many times as the horrible thing happens, a thousand times in every day the horrible thing passes us by.”
― These Precious Days: Essays
― These Precious Days: Essays
“This is why boredom can feel so surprisingly, aggressively unpleasant: we tend to think of it merely as a matter of not being particularly interested in whatever it is we’re doing, but in fact it’s an intense reaction to the deeply uncomfortable experience of confronting your limited control”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“Thank you for the food before us, the people around us, and the love between us.”
― Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
― Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
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