You write, "The world doesn’t need faster. It needs more space, and that space can only surface when we allow ourselves to slow down."
Agreed. Slowing down our minds happens naturally, organically, if we can transport ourselves to where space is abundant, out of the city, off the highway, deep in to the woods.
Here's a tip that might help some. Bring a phone on your trip in to the woods for safety reasons. But don't bring a smart phone. As Nancy Reagan might have said, "Just say no to smart phones!" :-) For the woods, for the space and slowing down, get yourself a cheap old flip phone that does pretty much nothing beyond making phone calls. Don't give anybody but your mate the number.
So it's good that we slow down our minds. Good, good and good. But there are bigger fish to fry as well. The knowledge explosion will continue to produce ever more, ever greater powers, at an ever faster pace. If we don't figure out how to slow that down, the personal peace we find in space and slowness is likely to be a temporary benefit.
Congratulations on the beautiful babe and thank you for the reminder to slow down, it is a practice I have to return to every day having been indoctrinated by a lifetime of hustle.
You write, "The world doesn’t need faster. It needs more space, and that space can only surface when we allow ourselves to slow down."
Agreed. Slowing down our minds happens naturally, organically, if we can transport ourselves to where space is abundant, out of the city, off the highway, deep in to the woods.
Here's a tip that might help some. Bring a phone on your trip in to the woods for safety reasons. But don't bring a smart phone. As Nancy Reagan might have said, "Just say no to smart phones!" :-) For the woods, for the space and slowing down, get yourself a cheap old flip phone that does pretty much nothing beyond making phone calls. Don't give anybody but your mate the number.
So it's good that we slow down our minds. Good, good and good. But there are bigger fish to fry as well. The knowledge explosion will continue to produce ever more, ever greater powers, at an ever faster pace. If we don't figure out how to slow that down, the personal peace we find in space and slowness is likely to be a temporary benefit.
Congratulations on the beautiful babe and thank you for the reminder to slow down, it is a practice I have to return to every day having been indoctrinated by a lifetime of hustle.