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 ― Jon Perry, www.structuredprocrastination.com
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+“What I like doing best is Nothing."
+"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.
+"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.
+It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
+"Oh!" said Pooh.”
+-Winnie the Pooh
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+Warten zu müssen ist eine freundliche Einladung zu einer kleinen Meditation.
+Andreas König (pseudonym for André van Wickeren)
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 ― Pessoa, Het boek der rusteloosheid
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+<blockquote>Over the centuries, the illusion of mastering time through obedience to it came into acceptance. Across Europe, the medieval monastery’s bell tolled as a reminder to eat, sleep and pray. But while there must have been some soul’s release in relinquishing earthly sovereignty to that sound, as the clock’s authority spread, we sealed all the gaps through which curiosity might seep into our days. Curiosity, after all, could
+lure the susceptible way off track, as the Italian poet Petrarch learned in the spring of 1336, when he famously climbed Mont Ventoux, motivated by “nothing but the desire to see its conspicuous height.” One of the texts he carried along was Saint Augustine’s “Confessions,” detailing the moral dangers of such expeditions, when men “go out to admire the mountains,” or the course of the stars, and therein forget themselves. Chastened, Petrarch made his descent in silence.
+[[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/opinion/homage-to-the-idols-of-idleness.html?ref=international&_r=2&_r=2&|Homage to The Idols of Idleness]]
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