Current book-stack is having a massive impact on my worldview, which I’m calling “playful chill.” I love the Stoics but they need to laugh morepic.twitter.com/yuiUZcPyuz
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Increasingly convinced that the art of living is learning how to hold everything you love — and want to make more complete/beautiful — *softly* & *gratefully*. Without white knuckles (overwhelming passion) + the attendant, paradoxical desire to drop the grip entirely (nihilism).https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1046394596022865920 …
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By the way, this can be taken as (1) a dismissal of unsustainable & ultimately bipolar life philosophies (2) a strategy for finding more stable positive emotional states It's NOT (1) a dismissal of life extension tech/transhumanism (3) a dismissal of a duty to human betterment
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yup, I feel that way too. everything slips through our fingers if the grip is too loose or too tight. we gotta just be present and open and vulnerable (and also not make a needlessly huge deal out of it while we're at it
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T.S. Eliot has a couple of beautiful lines reflecting this (I think?): "We must be still and still moving" (in /East Coker/) and "Teach us to care and not to care" (in /Ash Wednesday/)
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Yes. And I think the way you learn “how” to do this is by discovering what *not* doing it has cost you.
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Japanese ‘Sand in the Hand’ proverb.
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Also good advice for rock climbing
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