Convenience (Sam Wu, The New York Times, February 18, 2018)

today’s technologies of individualization are technologies of mass individualization

But being a person is only partly about having and exercising choices. It is also about how we face up to situations that are thrust upon us, about overcoming worthy challenges and finishing difficult tasks.

Convenience is all destination and no journey.

At some point, life’s defining struggle becomes the tyranny of tiny chores and petty decisions.

...if you want to be someone, you cannot allow convenience to be the value that transcends all others. Struggle is not always a problem. Sometimes struggle is a solution.

As if to mask the issue, we give other names to our inconvenient choices: We call them hobbies, avocations, callings, passions.

We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-top-region&region=opinion-c-col-top-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-top-region

Je trouve refuge dans... (Le Bouddha)

Je trouve refuge dans la verite, dans la pleine conscience, et dans l'amour.
(Le Bouddha)

http://sosdiscernement.org/meditation-de-pleine-conscience/
http://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/RAIN-un-exercice-d-auto-compassion.pdf
http://www.bouddhismes.net/enseignement_bouddha

Paul Klee sur l'art

"Ce que nous voyons n'est que apparence.

L'art ne reproduit pas le visible.   Il le rend visible."

Paul Klee

Papancha

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”

Gandhi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymPF0q7U5oM