Gathered here are ten hand-picked and carefully curated recommendations that might spark your curiosity this month:
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Alan Watts found this idea a strange and unnatural progression of our early lives, and something that was indicative of a much deeper-seated issue in how we view the nature of change and reality. Watts says what I love about this quote is how he connects this sense for always looking for the future to quite never been alive. You have to show up and value what you’re doing for itself in order to be here in your finite life:
“Let’s take education. What a hoax. As a child, you’re send to nursery school. And in nursery school you tell the child you are getting ready to go on to kindergarten. And then first grade is coming up, and second grade, and third grade. In high school, tell you everything ready for college. And in college you are getting ready to go out into the business world. People are like donkeys running after carrots that are hanging in front of their faces from sticks attached to their own colors. They are never here. They never get there. They are not alive.
You are gradually climbing the ladder towards, towards, going on towards progress. And then when it gets to end of grade school, you say ‘high school, now you’re really getting going.’ Wrong.”
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An observation that’s been on my mind this month:
