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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. —Meditations 5.16
One of the great benefits of writing down the events in your life is that you will begin to see your existence as a grand story.
sentences that have altered my perception
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My therapist told me this, and it changed my life:
"You're not healing to be able to handle trauma, pain, anxiety, depression. You're used to those.
You're healing to be able to handle joy and to accept happiness back into your life."
Quiet Wisdomsubstack.comThere are so many more people we haven’t met yet, ideas we’ve never imagined, philosophical framings that we have yet to stumble upon. Part of our lifework is to find them. Not only through carefully planned research projects, but also by way of random discoveries—those moments we didn’t see coming, and didn’t know we were looking for.
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I buil
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Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time. It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.