I've meant to record these two for a while— > Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for…
Stumbling across this precept from Aristotle called to mind a more recent restatement. > 'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.' Aristotle — The School of Life (@TheSchoolOfLife) September 16, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife/status/511786781420027904] > "How we…
> “We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.” — Paola Antonelli — Marc Worth (@marcworth) October 2, 2014 [https://twitter.com/marcworth/status/517682670956863488]…
Kate Murphy on Nir Barzilai at The New York Times [http://nyti.ms/1sDsfWk]— > But also there’s evidence that people with Alzheimer’s respond well to music they know. I’m preparing my Alzheimer’s playlist, which will include the first song I remember hearing in English, Tom…
Anna Della Subin at The New York Times [http://nyti.ms/1ryTYWa] > Still, humans will never stop procrastinating, and it might do us good to remember that the guilt and shame of the do-it-tomorrow cycle are not necessarily inescapable. The French philosopher Michel Foucault wrote about mental illness that…
> "If I were a doctor and were asked for advice," said Kierkegaard, "i should reply, `Create silence.' " — Pico Iyer (@PicoIyer) September 26, 2014 [https://twitter.com/PicoIyer/status/515585120388923392] Reminds me of this— > “Build pockets of stillness into your life.” And 6 other…
First William James— > To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No Exceptions. William James — Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) September 24, 2013 [https://twitter.com/FredericBrussat/status/382461185821384704] Then Henry— > Live all you can: it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t matter what you…
> 'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.' Marcus Tullius Cicero — The School of Life (@TheSchoolOfLife) September 22, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife/status/514021500450787328] Seeing this lovely thought reminds me that Seneca's On the Shortness of Life is near…