After-Orts #127
Listening well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them “Is there more?” until there is no more.
Bad things can happen fast but almost all good things happen slowly.
-- both, Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier, quoted by Maria Popova, in her weekly blog The Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/29/excellent-advice-for-living-kevin-kelly/
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Heresy, the Greek hairesis, was from the outset an eager, living word. The taking of a city, its expugnatio, is a hairesis; the choosing of a lot in life or an opinion, its electio, is a hairesis; always in the word hairesis there is this reaching out to grasp, this studious, zealous pursuit — always something personal, even passionate… To be a heretic today is almost a human obligation.
-- Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), in an essay, Heresy and Humanity, quoted by Maria Popova, in her weekly blog The Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/08/jane-ellen-harrison-heresy-and-humanity/
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Scotland is where golf comes from, a game that shows us the worst aspects of ourselves, potato-faced men in yellow pants riding electric carts in search of a white ball in tall grass and whacking it into a body of water and cursing God’s creation and then sitting in a clubhouse and getting soused on mint juleps and complaining about the income tax.
-- Garrison Keillor, Cheerfulness, chapter 1