Mighty Grateful! Thank You For Being You.🙏
"I suspect our ability to ask the unanswerable questions that
Hannah Arendt knew are the heartbeat of civilization is
intimately related to our capacity for dwelling in a particular
state of being beyond the realm of our compulsive doing.
Bertrand Russell called it “fruitful monotony.”
Adam Phillips called it “fertile solitude.”
Walt Whitman called it “loafing.”
The Buddhist tradition describes it simply as presence.
Whatever we may call it,
amid a culture of filling the existential void with cultish
productivity and an endless stream of dopamine-laced
distractions, it is nothing less than a countercultural act of
courage and resistance to enact such states of being
— states in which our inner voice becomes audible,
the voice with which we sing the song of our lives."
via Maria Popova @The Marginalian
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| D A D I R R I ~ B A Y A M I @ W O R R I M I |
T H E - G O L D E N - E T E R N I T Y by Jack Kerouac
"I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet,
concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree on a cold winter day.
It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream.
Everything is ecstasy, inside.
We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds.
But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright
forever and forever and forever.
Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds,
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot,
It is all one vast awakened thing.
I call it the golden eternity.
We were never really born, we will never really die.
It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves,
many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea.
I know this from staring at mountains months on end.
They never show any expression, they are like empty space,
but the emptiness of space will never crumble away
because it was never born."
