2026.05.10 Byung-Chul Han

“When life regains its capacity for contemplation, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness…What is necessary is a revitalization of the vita contemplativa, because it opens up spaces for breathing. Perhaps the mind itself owes its emergence to an excess of time, an otium, even to a slowness of breath. A reinterpretation of pneuma, which means breath as well as spirit, is conceivable.”

— Byung-Chul Han, The Scent of Time