something that we cultivate, aphorism 361, A Human Strategy by Matt Berry

361

Life is not made up of problems that we think through, but of relationships toward things: customs.  To put it another way, life is something that we cultivate ... something that yields fruit ... and with cultivation, quantity of days at minimum effort is more fruitful than the maximum effort of a single day.  Only that which increases has value, and only that which can be sustained increases.


All growth requires a trusting passivity, just as a seed requires certain elements of nature — sunlight and water, but mostly, time spent in one place, in the undisturbed, fertile soil ... in a germinating stillness.  The only movement one needs is that which keeps the elements in place.



A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism



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