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A Living Idea

Nitzan Hermon
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A living idea gives more the more you engage with it, in the form of value, meaning, and energy. It is not confined to physics, because your mind is not.

The only zero-sum game in your mind is the result of an unruly personal economy, an economy of time and attention.

When we can keep the work at bay, and nurture a practice that grounds, and is genuinely curious, about the self, first, we can drop into our place of thinking.

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