Brandon Dang
@bdang
Brandon Dang
I switched my major to psychology, but not before taking a class where we read Emile Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
That book shaped my view of God for the next 20 years of my life. Durkheim essentially argues that what people worship as God, whether they’re Aboriginal people in Australia or Catholic people in Europe or Muslim... See more
That book shaped my view of God for the next 20 years of my life. Durkheim essentially argues that what people worship as God, whether they’re Aboriginal people in Australia or Catholic people in Europe or Muslim... See more
Deep Okayness is not the feeling that I am awesome all the time. Instead, it is the total banishment of self-loathing. It is the deactivation of the part of my mind that used to attack itself. It’s the closure of the self as an attack surface. It’s the intuitive understanding that I am merely one of the apertures through which the universe... See more
Sasha Chapin • How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, or, I Demand Deep Okayness For Everyone
Check out Chat with Jayasāra: Love and Memory, from the Waking Up app:
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/episode/SE85CB4?source=content%20share&share_id=0E128CF4
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/episode/SE85CB4?source=content%20share&share_id=0E128CF4
Chasing peak experiences is chasing a false summit. They just turn to memories and delude you into striving and away from the present
So we sit in indecision. We wait for certainty before we commit. But certainty doesn’t come from thinking about a project. It comes from being inside a project.
My friend, the project is the way.
My friend, the project is the way.
The Project Is the Way
“As long as you try to stay in the world of polarities, you cannot experience the richness of the moment…the one behind the two” - Ram Dass
Some of these will definitely change your mindset
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Idea from @neuronvisuals
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#motivation #motivational #inspiration #inspirational #motivationalquotes #quotes #mindset #selfimprovement #growth
instagram.comDriven by ultra-capitalistic incentives, the incessant pursuit of productivity and perfection combined with external, never-ending stimuli results in burnout and anxiety, the symptoms of an overloaded nervous system.
More Human Possible
We aren’t necessarily being forced to work harder, but the incentives are dangled out in front of us, so we convince ourselves it will be “worth it” (i.e. working late nights bc thats what gets recognized at the yearly review)