5-Bullet Friday — 25 Helpful Principles, My Favorite Audiobook in Years, Einstein on Awe and Mystery, and More
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5-Bullet Friday — 25 Helpful Principles, My Favorite Audiobook in Years, Einstein on Awe and Mystery, and More
As Albert Einstein is supposed to have said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” In the pages ahead, I will opt for the latter! Although my primary background
Richard Rohr • The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
“The anditode to doom is curiosity.”
-Ezra Klein
Five things on being astonished:
“It is an astonishment to be alive, and it behoves you to be astonished.” — Katherine Rundell, paraphrasing poet John Donne
“If you attend thoughtfully to what you already have, you need nothing more. It’s all here.” — Claire Messud
“Let me / keep my mind on what matters, / which is my work, / which is mostly standing
... See moreTo be able to summon some sort of wonder and gratitude for the fact you got to live and die is the highest calling. It is the best way to go through life—it beats almost any other model of thinking I’ve ever encountered.