A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 93 excerpt)
from Pariyatti
According to Thoreau, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I think when people read this, they focus on the word “quiet” as the problematic one in the sentence. Echoing Pascal, quiet isn't the problem, it is the inability to accept the quiet that leads to the desperation. We don't need to change our environs as much as change ourselves, because as Anaïs Nin wrote, “We see things not as they are, but as we are.”... narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2023 · 3 minutes 10 seconds View on the Pariyatti store All Pariyatti podcasts: pariyatti.org/pages/podcasts
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