Arielle Shnaidman

Male self help is about self control. Female self help is about self love. I find this fascinating.

Arthur thinks of it like food: The macronutrients of happiness are enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning. Main dishes are faith, family, and friends. BUT this happiness is declining in the US by ~0.5% on average each year.

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

Any time you identify a wasteland element in your life—illness, boredom, lethargy, alienation, emptiness, loss, addiction, failure, anger, or outrage—it is time to take a journey. You can be called to the quest by such dissatisfaction or simply by a desire for adventure~C Pearson

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." —Anne Lamott (@ANNELAMOTT)

No matter what it is... If your heart's not in it, it's not for you.

Spend less time focusing on "discipline," and more time in things that genuinely pull you forward... The person who requires internal force, will always get lapped by someone with genuine drive toward that thing. Obsession beats discipline all day long.

I collect sentences I wish I wrote. Here are 7 to make ya think - all from fiction: 1. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God