You have to accept that there will always be too much to do… - Oliver Burkeman

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You have to accept that there will always be too much to do; that you can't avoid tough choices or make the world run at your preferred speed; that no experience, least of all close relationships with other human beings, can ever be guaranteed in advance to turn out painlessly and well — and that from a cosmic viewpoint, when it's all over, it won't have counted for very much anyway.

Oliver Burkeman

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Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British journalist (principally for the British newspaper The Guardian) and writer.

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Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention.

Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.

This world of polluted attention creates the opportunity to sell silence back to us, at a profit.

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