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Evan Sutter
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Could 'nothing' be the key to our happiness?
The following is an excerpt from one of the opening chapters of the book 'Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World'.
“Our entire life has been training. The question is: training in what? This question means: training in which direction? If we train ourselves to reach for a snack or pick up the phone to text-message whenever we feel frightened or bored, this is definitely training. The nex Read more of this blog post »
“Our entire life has been training. The question is: training in what? This question means: training in which direction? If we train ourselves to reach for a snack or pick up the phone to text-message whenever we feel frightened or bored, this is definitely training. The nex Read more of this blog post »
“We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble.”
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day”
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“We consume so we never have to answer the hard questions. When we are bored we eat. When we are lonely we watch a movie, read the newspaper, jump on social media. Each time we do we cover up our real emotions and keep throwing another layer of confusion and anxiety on top, making it almost impossible to dig ourselves out of the hole, or at least see which way is up.”
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“I cannot help to see how life is a play of opposites. For all you get, you miss out on something, to go means not to come, to buy means to sell, to choose one, means to not choose another. You should enjoy your decision for the adventure that it is. It is all an adventure.”
― Scribbles on the Wall
― Scribbles on the Wall
“Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.”
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“When we have simplicity we have so much more freedom in every single aspect of our lives. Maybe it's a classic case of less is more? Less stress, less worries, more time, more happiness.”
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.”
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain”
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
― Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
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"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself." –Thomas Browne. http://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Doing-...
“Happiness is only real when not shared." When we can find real happiness by ourselves without anything external, including friends and family, it becomes so much ‘realer’. If our happiness always depended on someone, or something, else then it wouldn't be very real, would it? So why not start with building a strong foundation with you and only you, first and foremost, that way your happiness is always in reach, even when you are the only person for miles and miles, and miles. Solitude is coming September 18....
