Say your name aloud to yourself in a quiet room. Imagine peeling an apple in your mind. Take the subway without trying to get anywhere. The simple meditations in this book have the potential to shake us awake from our preconceived certainties: our own identity, the stability of the outside world, the meanings of words. At once entertaining and startling, irreverent and wise, this book will provoke moments of awareness for readers in any situation and in all walks of life. Enter the space of your favorite painting. Watch someone sleeping. The world won't look the same again.
Say your name aloud to yourself in a quiet room. Imagine peeling an apple in your mind. Take the subway without trying to get anywhere. The simple meditations in this book have the potential to shake us awake from our preconceived certainties: our own identity, the stability of the outside world, the meanings of words. At once entertaining and startling, irreverent and wise, this book will provoke moments of awareness for readers in any situation and in all walks of life. Enter the space of your favorite painting. Watch someone sleeping. The world won't look the same again.
Astonish Yourself!Introduction: Everyday adventures 1. Call yourself 2. Empty a word of its meaning 3. Look in vain for "I" 4. Make the world last twenty minutes 5. See the stars below you 6. See a landscape as a stretched canvas 7. Lose something and not know what 8. Recall where you were this morning 9. Hurt yourself briefly 10. Feel eternal 11. Telephone at random 12. Rediscover your room after a journey 13. Drink while urinating 14. Make a wall between your hands 15. Walk in the dark 16. Dream of all the places in the world 17. Peel an apple in your head 18. Visualize a pile of human organs 19. Imagine yourself high up 20. Imagine your imminent death 21. Try to measure existence 22. Count to a thousand 23. Dread the arrival of the bus 24. Run in a graveyard 25. Play the fool 26. Watch a woman at her window 27. Invent lives for yourself 28. Look at people from a moving car 29. Follow the movement of ants 30. Eat a nameless substance 31. Watch dust in the sun 32. Resist tiredness 33. Overeat 34. Play the animal 35. Contemplate a dead bird 36. Come across a childhood toy 37. Wait while doing nothing 38. Try not to think 39. Go to the hairdresser 40. Shower with your eyes closed 41. Sleep on your front in the sun 42. Go to the circus 43. Try on clothes 44. Calligraphize 45. Light a fire in the hearth 46. Be aware of yourself speaking 47. Weep at the cinema 48. Meet up with friends after several years 49. Browse at the bookseller's 50. Become music 51. Pull out a hair 52. Walk in an imaginary forest 53. Demonstrate on your own 54. Stay in the hammock 55. Invent headlines 56. Listen to short-wave radio 57. Turn off the sound on the TV 58. Redisover a childhood scene that seemed larger 59. Get used to eating something you don't like 60. Fast for a while 61. Rant for ten minutes 62. Drive through a forest 63. Give without thinking about it 64. Look for a blue food 65. Become a saint or sinner 66. Recover lost memories 67. Watch someone sleeping 68. Work on a holiday 69. Consider humanity to be an error 70. Inhabit the planet of small gestures 71. Disconnect the phone 72. Smile at a stranger 73. Enter the space of a painting 74. Leave the cinema in daytime 75. Plunge into cold water 76. Seek out immutable landscapes 77. Listen to a recording of your voice 78. Tell a stranger she is beautiful 79. Believe in the existence of a smell 80. Wake up without knowing where 81. Descend an interminable staircase 82. Swallow your emotion 83. Fix the ephemeral 84. Decorate a room 85. Laugh at an idea 86. Vanish at a pavement cafe 87. Row on a lake in your room 88. Prowl at night 89. Become attached to an object 90. Sing the praises of Santa Claus 91. Play with a child 92. Encounter pure chance 93. Recite the telephone directory on your knees 94. Think about what other people are doing 95. Practice make-believe everywhere 96. Kill people in your head 97. Take the subway without going anywhere 98. Remove your watch 99. Put up with a chatterbox 100. Clean up after the party 101. Find the infinitesimal caress
Astonish Yourself!Introduction: Everyday adventures 1. Call yourself 2. Empty a word of its meaning 3. Look in vain for "I" 4. Make the world last twenty minutes 5. See the stars below you 6. See a landscape as a stretched canvas 7. Lose something and not know what 8. Recall where you were this morning 9. Hurt yourself briefly 10. Feel eternal 11. Telephone at random 12. Rediscover your room after a journey 13. Drink while urinating 14. Make a wall between your hands 15. Walk in the dark 16. Dream of all the places in the world 17. Peel an apple in your head 18. Visualize a pile of human organs 19. Imagine yourself high up 20. Imagine your imminent death 21. Try to measure existence 22. Count to a thousand 23. Dread the arrival of the bus 24. Run in a graveyard 25. Play the fool 26. Watch a woman at her window 27. Invent lives for yourself 28. Look at people from a moving car 29. Follow the movement of ants 30. Eat a nameless substance 31. Watch dust in the sun 32. Resist tiredness 33. Overeat 34. Play the animal 35. Contemplate a dead bird 36. Come across a childhood toy 37. Wait while doing nothing 38. Try not to think 39. Go to the hairdresser 40. Shower with your eyes closed 41. Sleep on your front in the sun 42. Go to the circus 43. Try on clothes 44. Calligraphize 45. Light a fire in the hearth 46. Be aware of yourself speaking 47. Weep at the cinema 48. Meet up with friends after several years 49. Browse at the bookseller's 50. Become music 51. Pull out a hair 52. Walk in an imaginary forest 53. Demonstrate on your own 54. Stay in the hammock 55. Invent headlines 56. Listen to short-wave radio 57. Turn off the sound on the TV 58. Redisover a childhood scene that seemed larger 59. Get used to eating something you don't like 60. Fast for a while 61. Rant for ten minutes 62. Drive through a forest 63. Give without thinking about it 64. Look for a blue food 65. Become a saint or sinner 66. Recover lost memories 67. Watch someone sleeping 68. Work on a holiday 69. Consider humanity to be an error 70. Inhabit the planet of small gestures 71. Disconnect the phone 72. Smile at a stranger 73. Enter the space of a painting 74. Leave the cinema in daytime 75. Plunge into cold water 76. Seek out immutable landscapes 77. Listen to a recording of your voice 78. Tell a stranger she is beautiful 79. Believe in the existence of a smell 80. Wake up without knowing where 81. Descend an interminable staircase 82. Swallow your emotion 83. Fix the ephemeral 84. Decorate a room 85. Laugh at an idea 86. Vanish at a pavement cafe 87. Row on a lake in your room 88. Prowl at night 89. Become attached to an object 90. Sing the praises of Santa Claus 91. Play with a child 92. Encounter pure chance 93. Recite the telephone directory on your knees 94. Think about what other people are doing 95. Practice make-believe everywhere 96. Kill people in your head 97. Take the subway without going anywhere 98. Remove your watch 99. Put up with a chatterbox 100. Clean up after the party 101. Find the infinitesimal caress
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