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Chapter 5 |
No ground, no guarantees, just now

To be awake at work is not a fixed or tidy state of mind that we achieve at some point, a point at which we have finally made it and are once and for all awake. There is no final accomplishment we can look to, no state of mind...

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Chapter 27 |
Don’t forget

At times it seems impossible to escape our impatience. The overnight Federal Express package isn’t express enough; our 900 million mega-RAM computer boots up too slowly; the thirty-second wait at the elevator, the sorting time at the copier, the line at the toll booth—our anger and impatience at waiting and our resistance to slowing down can seem monumental. It is little wonder...

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