I ask LL about the experience of realization that pursuit of acquiring things makes her less contemplative and grounded, less compassionate, and so on.  We talk about our curbing of video games.  

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You can talk of the sage to the adult as the adult is to the child, so in this view, great wisdom provides great maturity.  We talk about attempt to discursively fulfill needs with consumerism.  

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An orientation towards consumption in our society, towards a kind of perfection.  Fulfilling needs.  Erich Fromm distinguished between “being needs” and “having needs,” and Vervaeke talks about how the market provides us with things to have when we have needs to be.

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Not upholding knowledge above wisdom, but realizing it is important for the development of wisdom. Balance in the soul, and Balance in Society.  

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I talk about mindfulness, its mundane salutary effects, and enlightenment.  I ask LL what wisdom is.  She grounds it in understanding and experience and contrasts it to knowledge.  I link wisdom to judgment and having a balanced self.

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Vervaeke’s project of resurrecting from Clichedom the terms we bruit about, like wisdom, knowledge, rationality, mindfulness, etc.

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I like having a contemplative morning routine.  We talk about why she doesn’t even though she says meditation provides a great benefit when she does it.

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I ask LL why she doesn’t continue with the painting.  She says it would be hard with how much she is interrupted where she lives.  I shift the conversation to bodily sensations meditation.  

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LL has a hard time taking in podcasts when she’s working out, and we expand the conversation to focus in other realms, including art and spirituality.  

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I ask LL what she feels about the meaning crisis.  She says we feel like we’re in a sea, on our own islands.  People are disconnected, uninterested in interacting with each other.  Tech has a role in this.  

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