"It's become a courageous act to love who you are." Duke Stump (@skratta). DO Wales 2018.

Koans will change your idea of who you are, and this will require courage.

“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w

we can find ways to become more comfortable with uncertainty, we can see the world more accurately and be better for

You are what you love because you live toward what you want.

Jennifer Matthews puts it in her excellently titled short book Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are,

This shifts us away from treating information that disagrees with us as a threat, as something we have to defend against, making us better able to truthseek.

When you are not afraid to forget who you are, life in the kitchen, or life in the office, might contain huge and overwhelming happiness. Everything you look at, the door, the walls meeting in the corner of the room, the light shining on the cell phone, might be so alive that it looks back. Other people might not be who you thought they were. Famil