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Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings
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- In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on g... See more
from Glimpsing God by Nadia
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It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.
from Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
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Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
from BRUCE MAU'S MASSIVE CHANGE NETWORK by Bruce Mau
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... See morePhilosopher John Macmurray explains one of the dilemmas of life:
"In imagination we feel sure that it would be lovely to live with a full and rich awareness of the world. But in practice sensitiveness hurts. It is not possible to develop the capacity to see beauty without developing also the capacity to see ugliness, for they are the same capacity.Agalia Tan added
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