How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Presence Over Productivity
by Maria Popova
“The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.”
The meaning of life has been pondered by such literary icons as Leo Tolstoy (1904), Henry Miller(1918), Anaïs Nin (1946), Viktor Frankl (1946),Italo Calvino (1975), and David Foster Wallace(2005). And though some have argued that today’s age is one where “the great dream is to trade up from money to meaning,” there’s an unshakable and discomfiting sense that, in our obsession withoptimizing our creative routines and maximizing our productivity, we’ve forgotten how to be truly present in the gladdening mystery of life./.../
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