If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your expe...

If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right

by Jason Snyder

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In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
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The quality of experience of people who play with and transform the opportunities in their surroundings, as Joe did, is clearly more developed as well as more enjoyable than that of people who resign themselves to live within the constraints of the barren reality they feel they cannot alter.
from Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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But almost everybody wants something different. If you think the way you’ve always thought, if you do the things others have always done, if you act in the same way, if you have the same emotions and beliefs, you’re bound to wind up where everybody else is going. If you don’t fancy that, you’ve got to change. You’ve got to select a whole different
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from Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power by Stuart Wilde

from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova

from Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

from Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power by Stuart Wilde