Brain Pickings, the brain child of Maria Popova, publishes thought-provoking material on a daily basis. I find myself scrolling away into the wee hours of the night, reading, pondering, thinking.
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"Universal Wisdom for All"
An existential walk into what money can and can’t buy.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her sublime mediation on presence vs. productivity. There is hardly a more enduring embodiment of this spirit than Henry David Thoreau, for whom the very definition of success rested on the ability to greet one’s day with joy. Yet this philosophy
of mindfulness and immersion in the richness of life is increasingly
eroded by our culture’s cult of productivity, which eats away at our ability to truly see life as it unfolds before us.
