Notes on a Nervous Planet
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“… Fumio Sasaki puts it: ‘there’s a happiness in having less’…
… I realised that a more general overload was the problem. A life overload.”
“As Yoda nearly put it, you can’t try to be. Trying is the opposite of being.”
“You only get one life. It’s always best to live it as yourself.”
“The brain, as Emily Dickinson put it, is bigger than the sky.”
“Everything we need is right here. Everything we are is enough. We don’t need the bigger boat to deal with the invisible sharks around us.”
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
“…so we need, more than ever, to know how to edit the world, so it can never break us down.”