She said:
“I think it’s very hard for us in the West to be able to speak about non action, because our cultural background instills a kind of guilt about ‘doing nothing’ “…
Me:
Undoubtedly, it is so.
But why is that?… Has our guilt to do eventually with “doing nothing”?
Or…
Has it maybe to do with the fact that we are so much immersed in “doing”, so The Actual Guilt is an uneasy reminder, that invariably, since time immemorial we don´t really live, and accordingly, we ultimately miss something of great consequence despite our clever
and pragmatic life-style?…
Isn´t Doing some kind of compensation for fleeing who we are…- escaping the
Wonder of Life?
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