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We are always getting ready to live, but never living. And yet the secret of all life is enjoyment; it is just to notice what is happening, to see it, to taste it in its fullness, to find the curious savor of it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1834)
4d ago

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. The vague promises of the future are enough to keep us tethered to the present without ever fully inhabiting it.

4w ago

It is not length of life, but depth of life. Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

4w ago

It is not length of life, but depth of life. Cut these questionings short, and accept the universe as it is, and work in it rather than to understand it.

1mo ago
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Flea Talks About How Jeff Parker Just Gets People, Including Him

There's like this combination of a deep knowledge of music, a very comfortable and tactile relationship with his instrument, and this sensitivity that he's listening and reacting. He's not, like, sticking to a plan of, 'I know what I can do, and this will work.' He's listening. And there's this river of music inside of Jeff—all the stillness and the violence and the chaos and the absolute ethereal beauty that he can bring to music through his playing.

2mo ago

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

2mo ago
themarginalian.org
How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Every Day

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A person's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.

3mo ago

We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death. In fact, they are composed of thousands of days, each one a world in itself.

3mo ago
themarginalian.org
Swimming and the Meaning of Life

At eleven, I was beginning to see how the moment we incline action toward achievement, we drain the activity of joy; how anything we approach transactionally will never yield transcendence.

3mo ago
themarginalian.org
How Not to Dwell on the Past

The great challenge, the great triumph, is to make of memory an instrument of presence.

3mo ago
longreads.com
Roadside Attraction

But as I sit in my house, so quiet I can hear the blood in my body, the sunset painting the sky a deep, pink hue, I can only think that all of these men are gone and I am still here. I continue, continue, and continue, to still be here. It seems I am in wait, Jodie Foster on the side of the road, letting the world, and the world beyond the world, whisper into my ears.

4mo ago
themarginalian.org
The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

Life is best understood and practiced as an art, the way that art is understood and practiced. We rely on inspiration, feeling for materials, knowledge of how to put things together well, patience, physical strength and awareness that we are part of a process which we don't know much about yet but which we live within and are sustained by.

4mo ago
longreads.com
Our Longing for Inconvenience

There's so much to learn and to savor in friction, he suggests, be it waiting for a song on the radio to complete a prized mixtape or the deep connection we can find if we go through the time and trouble to ditch electronic communication and actually meet others, face to face.

4mo ago

The true paradox of consciousness is that we become most fully conscious precisely when we cease to think about consciousness at all, and surrender ourselves to the world.

5mo ago

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