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The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths - Emerge
Paradoxically, self-improvement tends to reinforce self-deficiency even as it attempt to address it. This is how incessant self-improvement and self-optimization can be a source of suffering. The alternative is self-unfoldment.
Steve March • The Four Styles of Transformation Part 2: On Transmutation — Aletheia
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Yet if mere self-improvement were the goal, why tell stories when we have so many valuable self-help methods to transform our psyche and consciousness? The further we go into the “self,” the more we find that logical systems don't help very much.
Neil Douglas-Klotz • The Little Book of Sufi Stories: Ancient Wisdom to Nourish the Heart
I’m drawn to the idea of an art of living much more so than to the compulsive search for life hacks, regimens of self-improvement, or self-optimization schemes. These too often feel like a doubling down on the insistence that we can always do more if only we apply the right technique. They also suggest that the path to happiness involves the discov... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
the self is no longer a subject but a project . The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé. Knowingly or otherwise, we risk being constantly governed by the question How is what I’m doing rig
... See moreAlec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
Andreas Vlach and added
“Okay,” you might be thinking, “so the project of self-improvement is largely unrelated to the project of spiritual awakening, but it couldn’t possibly undermine the awakening process, could it?” Yes, it could. Let me explain. What exactly is this best version of themselves that people want to be? All too often, it’s a socially conditioned figment
... See moreChristopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
a destructive cultural delusion: that we need more knowledge, life-hacks and productivity tips to become the people we want to be.
Daniel Kazandjian • Greatness isn't Grandiose
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