WAIT WHILE DOING NOTHING.
9:53 p.m. @ Wednesday, Mar. 04, 2009
I thought this was rather interesting. Read it from this book titled "101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life" when i was in the library today.
Wait while doing nothing.
(the first few para was talking about what people usually do the occupy themselves while waiting, such as reading books, magazines, thinking about their next activity, etc)
"You ought to experiment with exactly the reverse.
Do nothing. Without becoming either irritated or bored. Let yourself float in time, knowing that it will pass, inexorably, in you and without you. You should merge without anxiety into this total passivity. Everything will happen, and nothing depends on you. You can be empty, amorphous, immobile, indifferent, dreamy, absent - time moves on regardless, and this interval will come to an end. You can thus make the discovery that there's no need to kill time. It dies by itself, on its own, unceasingly."
Do nothing. Without becoming either irritated or bored. Let yourself float in time, knowing that it will pass, inexorably, in you and without you. You should merge without anxiety into this total passivity. Everything will happen, and nothing depends on you. You can be empty, amorphous, immobile, indifferent, dreamy, absent - time moves on regardless, and this interval will come to an end. You can thus make the discovery that there's no need to kill time. It dies by itself, on its own, unceasingly."
Time is such a curious thing.
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