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Sheila Heti: The Soul of Art S1 E2

Meditations with Zohar

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Are We Living in the Time of God's Abundance?

I take a tremendous amount of pleasure in, you know, idleness. And so standing back is fo the opposite of everything that you're asked to do and that you're rewarded for doing. That reminds me of the biblical idea of shabat, sabbath, as a time of refraining from production. It also hearkens to aa coblistic jewish idea of what's called simsum,. The idea that to create the world, god has to withdraw from god selfor from the world - making room for something else. I think it's just laziness, honestly. i really like doing nothing.

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