The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and The Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long

Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and The Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long Brain Pickings - "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." "How we spend our days," Annie Dillard memorably wrote in her soul-stretching meditation on the life of presence, "is, of course, how we spend our lives." And yet most of us spend our days in what Kierkegaard believed to be our greatest source of unhappiness — a refusal to recognize that "busy is a decision" and that presence is infinitely more rewarding than productivity. I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being. Available on the App Store.

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