Contemplative Life: A Praise to Idleness

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Description: A POWERFUL CALL TO FORSAKE A HYPERACTIVE LIFE AND REGAIN OUR SENSES, OUR EQUILIBRIUM, AND OUR INNER WEALTH. We are losing our ability to do nothing. Our existence is completely consumed by activity, and therefore completely exploited. Since we only perceive life in terms of performance, we tend to understand inactivity as a deficit, denial, or the mere absence of activity, when it is quite the opposite: a very interesting, independent capacity. Byung-Chul Han explores the benefits, the splendor, and magic of idleness, and devises a new way of life, involving contemplative moments, with which to tackle the current crisis i ... (more)

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