A short piece for my subscribers. It is a more personal companion to last week’s newsletter. I wrote it on a meadow I chanced upon and it was the last thing I wrote before returning to Berlin. It is more discursive than usual; how I write when I’m trying to work things out. It may seem unintuitive, but in it, I’m trying to work things out by not trying to work things out. We’re so in need of certainty these days, that we forget how much of our existence plays out in the realm before reason begins. Though in my newsletter, I try to offer insights when I happen to stumble upon them, I don’t want to trick myself or others. Sometimes it is better to leave reason to the legislators and emotion to the fanatics. I feel most in life in its noticing, its contemplation. As if it only starts giving me its rewards when I stop pursuing it. Given this is contrary to what most “thought leaders” advise nowadays, I will dive into the nothing awhile, and atomise into the joy that emerges when our thoughts exhaust themselves.
Thank you for your support, dear friends. I wish you really knew what it means to me. Some things, gracefully, are beyond description!
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