The secret to a meaningful life: Your top interest should be useless, even to yourself, but not a mere hobby or below-marketable-quality amateur skill. Your life McGuffin. Anything “useful” is measured by its ends. The useless thing at the end of all is the measure of everything.
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Useless or simply things that give you satisfaction through the process not because of the end result? That doesn't rule out pursuing activities with useful results.
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Like getting very excited about obscure music trivia for example?
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What's the thought process behind this statement?
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Mine. Sometimes worse than useless
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So ensure I do my wine stuff than bicycle stuff is what you’re saying? I can get behind that.
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"Now, the word 'meditation', the root meaning of that word, is to measure. And the whole western world is based on that idea of measurement; and in the East they have said measurement is maya, illusion, and therefore we must find the immeasurable."
- Krishnamurti
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