is work worship? - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix

deep work and deeper work

The Road to Nikko by Hasui Kawase I’m thinking again about that David Foster Wallace quote: There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship… is that anything else you worship will eat you alive. He talks about how we worship many things intellect, beauty, power: Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart,…

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