“Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer.”
—Anthony Bourdain https://t.co/fCvqAqf7Ik
“Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer.” —Anthony Bourdain https://t.co/fCvqAqf7Ik
It’s not always clean and straightforward. But as my mother would say to me, “The world is complicated, Bar. That’s why it’s interesting.”
Barack Obama • How I Approach the Toughest Decisions
Anxiety is not an answer to a problem we are worrying about but the measure of our distance from the place where the answer lies .
Tim Ferriss • How to Heal the Anxious Self — David Whyte - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Buddhism is unique, as far as I know, in insisting that the kind of answers we want cannot be had, anywhere. Emptiness—inherent uncertainty—is at the heart of Buddhism. For this reason, Buddhism is sometimes described as “The Way of Disappointment.” If we follow it sincerely, Buddhism repeatedly crushes our hope that somehow it will satisfy our... See more