Neri Oxman
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
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It makes me think of that quote from this incredible movie I've watched years ago.
Particle Fever, I think it was called, a documentary about the Large Hydron Collider, an incredible film, where they talk about the things that are least important for our survival are the things that make us human, like the pure romantic act or the notion of... And Viktor Frankl talks about that too.
He talks about feeling the sun on his arms as he's
as he is working the soil in two degrees Fahrenheit without clothes.
And
The officer berates him and says, what have you done?
Have you been a businessman before you came here to the camp?
And he says, I was a doctor.
And he said, you must have made a lot of money as a doctor.
And he said, all my work I've done for free.
I've been helping the poor people.
But he keeps his humility and he keeps his modesty and he keeps his humility.
preservation of the spirit.
And he says the things that actually made him able to outlive the terrible experience in the Holocaust was really cherishing this moment when the sun hits his skin or when he can eat a grain of rice, a single grain of rice.
So I think
Cherishing is a very important part of living a meaningful life, being able to cherish those simple things.
Like to notice them and to... To notice them, to pay attention to them in the moment.
And I do this now more than ever.
Yes, yes.
And that goes back to
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