Friday Philosophies: The Wisdom of Via Negativa
The Twelfth House
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The Importance of Negativity in Life
The concept of essentialism can be applied to many problems that we approach in our day to day. Usually when we have a problem, our natural instinct is to add a new habit or buy a new solution. But usually we improve our lives by subtracting instead by taking things away. And sometimes by defining what we shouldn't do, it becomes even more clear what we should. It's like we're solving a problem through process of elimination. If life was wordle, where we're just trying to figure out what's, what are the like by process of elimination, what is the right answer because I'm learning what isn't? That's not my problem. My problem is figuring out
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