You can forget it in some bookshelf or other for many years, so that one day your children or grandchildren can pick it up by chance and remind you of it. You can pretend to read from it in the bus, when in fact you spy the hips of the pretty girl standing by the … Continue reading Things You Can Do with a Book, Apart From Reading It
Do you ever notice the empty spaces between and within things? The diamond holes in a chainlike fence, the empty space within your room, the emptiness around an interesting person on the street, an emptiness out of which she or he seems to have materialized before your eyes? Our world is full of objects and … Continue reading On Positive Emptiness
Thinking easily transports us away from the present, into the uncertain future, or back into the disappointing past, so that every day, for large periods of time, we can wander distractedly among our thoughts instead of attending to the here and the now. Thinking may place us at the forefront of evolution, and it may … Continue reading Let’s Think Less
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