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The Unhurried Life

Reflections from the ongoing experiment of harmonizing my outer life with inner peace.

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  1. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    The insatiable mind (opens the original)

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    I began writing this post after about a 20-minute scrolling session on Instagram. The justification is that I was waiting for an AI task to finish. The irony was that the task was frozen, and I didn’t notice because I was scrolling.Why do I scroll, even while I’ve experienced how deeply satisfying silence and stillness (along with how unsettling mindless scrolling) can be?There are probably different angles from which we could explain this. There’s the concept of dopamine addiction that’s intent

  2. Issue · Aug 23, 2026

    A Course in Re-membering (opens the original)

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    I’ve been studying A Course in Miracles recently. Most who’ve read it would agree that it’s quite a powerful exercise in remembering. Or as Neil Donald Walsh put it, “re-membering.”I say “remembering” because I’ve found that most deep truths in life are not learned; to be learned, one would have to start from a place of lack. To gain knowledge, one must begin without it. And while it’s possible to learn and accumulate knowledge in a worldly sense, I deeply believe that spiritual understanding is

  3. Issue · Jul 26, 2026

    A Hurriedly, Unhurried Life (opens the original)

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    More and more, I find myself resisting sitting down to write. It’s not because I don’t enjoy writing, but rather because my mind tries to convince me that there are “more important things to do“.I’ve been quite busy over the last few months. I started a business with a longtime friend and mentor of mine and began working on another business project on the side. The slow living of the last few years has been speedily replaced by SOPs, KPIs, P&Ls, and whatever other BS business acronyms you care t

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