Instead of doing one thing we love, we do many things we like.
An inadvertent life
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Instead of doing one thing we love, we do many things we like.
Consumer culture proclaims that happiness is having things and doing things. The advertising industry has from the dawn of its existence parked its considerable haunches on this belief. But having things and doing things is the opposite of happiness. True happiness has no reason.
The director calls “Action!” We hear “Activities!”
Wisdom is the stillness, the pause before the action, the space between the notes.
Stillness differentiates action from mere activity. Activities are for the self. Action is for the world.
Love is action, not talking, not ‘I love you.’
Love originates in wisdom. Wisdom is the womb.