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+ | “What I like doing best is Nothing." | ||
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+ | "How do you do Nothing," | ||
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+ | "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' | ||
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+ | It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." | ||
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+ | -Winnie the Pooh | ||
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+ | I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not take place until later, are nothing more than the last reverberations of a vast movement that occurs within us during idle days. | ||
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+ | In any case, it is very important to be idle with confidence, with devotion, possibly even with joy. The days when even our hands do not stir are so exceptionally quiet that it is hardly possible to raise them without hearing a whole lot. | ||
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+ | ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Life | ||
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+ | Warten zu müssen ist eine freundliche Einladung zu einer kleinen Meditation. | ||
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+ | lure the susceptible way off track, as the Italian poet Petrarch learned in the spring of 1336, when he famously climbed Mont Ventoux, motivated by “nothing but the desire to see its conspicuous height.” One of the texts he carried along was Saint Augustine’s “Confessions, | ||
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+ | --Manfred F.R. KETS de VRIES | ||
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* Joke Hermsen, Kairos, Een nieuwe bevlogenheid, | * Joke Hermsen, Kairos, Een nieuwe bevlogenheid, | ||
* Books to lounge and be Idle with from [[https:// | * Books to lounge and be Idle with from [[https:// | ||
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+ | * Manfred F.R. KETS de VRIES, 2014, Doing Nothing and Nothing to Do: The Hidden Value of Empty Time and Boredom. http:// | ||
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* The “black wave” in cinema of former Yugoslavia in 1960s and 1970s as critical practice (Zelimir Zilnik, Dusan Makavejev, Stasenko, Mikuljan, Zoran Tadic, KrstoPapic) reflecting the social context of proletariat in socialist country, along with radical language of conceptual art (Mladen Stilinovic, Group of six artists, OHO). | * The “black wave” in cinema of former Yugoslavia in 1960s and 1970s as critical practice (Zelimir Zilnik, Dusan Makavejev, Stasenko, Mikuljan, Zoran Tadic, KrstoPapic) reflecting the social context of proletariat in socialist country, along with radical language of conceptual art (Mladen Stilinovic, Group of six artists, OHO). | ||
- | * Moscou Collective Actions: In june 2000 Elisabeth Schimana and Markus Seidl started with the following mission: “a farming village in upper austria is sought, whose inhabitants are ready to discuss the following questions with us: what does comfort mean? is it comfortable to do nothing? what does it mean to do nothing? who is allowed to do what about doing nothing? the results form seven days of doing nothing. | + | * Moscou Collective Actions: In june 2000 [[http:// |
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