/lit/ - Literature

>>15323570
I don't know what the concept of grace looks like today. Cultivation remains essential, but overly polite, or witty, or really just overcultivation is embarrassing. Another way of saying this is that every age has its notion of nonchalance.

I'd argue that today's equivalent is far more tied to a chillness and openness than to a casual mastery of skills. You know, the ability to not take things too seriously without falling into callous cynicism and irony for the sake of a sharp joke. It's a wholesomeness. A style that is modern but restrained without being flashy or obvious, a good knowledge of contemporary and past arts without being pretentious, a grasp of politics based on a practical empathy, a lack of social anxiety without being a social butterfly, inwardness without self-obsession. No vanity except in light self-mockery.

I think most importantly today is a peace with the self, you know, an air of "I know myself and am comfortable in my own skin, I don't need to impress nor tell off anyone for my own peace of mind." Being able to stand out, quietly, in this period of mass insecurity and loathing (for one's self and others). It's also about not having a shtick. People are clamouring to identify themselves with some particular label (I'm an artist, health person, gay, comedian, socialist, black, white, etc) because they're so afraid of actually being an individual person. We're living in a whole new regime of labels, like as if all of society is stuck in permanent highschool. Avoiding this is the most important thing.

I think that's the ideal, at least for myself.

Not only what you do when taking days off, but also the small breaks in-between readings within the same day.
Anything else other than going on 4chan please.

How fast do you generally read /lit/? http://www.readingsoft.com/
I read at about 180 and It makes me a little insecure

>>15156379
At the center of the maze, a foolish man believes he's at home
but no further could he be from truth.
He seeks the treasure which cannot be found
for it lies beyond the walls in which hes confound.
His spirit longs for more but his mind binds him in chains.
He believes to be his carriage but the self can only walk back home.
He settles for mere shadows but a wise man tastes infinity
and accepts no less.
He sees himself and something out there as if it were two
but in truth he sees neither.
Foolish is such ignorance
for he who sees two will go from death to death.

Im off to sleep, gentlemen of nonduality keep the good fight and thread alive i OP pass the torch
>>15032771
Buddhists would call such a state as no self so it doesnt make sense in ur context, again read the link on nonduality

Also on spirituality and philosophy without religion you must seek to understand nature and existence of predatory nonorganic beings which can be found in many cases of occult literature

>>15015580
Why do you type like that?
>For the uninitiated
go back
>et al.
nigga this isn't your works cited. also
>Spinoza
lmao. go read ibn arabi and the sufis; the hard problem is an analytic fable that whines about how science can't come to the conclusions the ancients already had sorted out.