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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been through hell.
Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
Design an information diet like you would design your diet with food: this information is good, this information is bad, don’t consume this type of information, only consume this type of media during this specific time of day, etc.
Balaji S. Srinivasan • Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519
The way you change a person is by getting through not to their head or their will but to their heart.
How Do People Actually Change? - Mockingbird
The effort to try and feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. -Oliver Burkeman
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield
So I suggest that spirituality and religion start not from a system of belief that offers comfort and meaning, but from a first-hand glimpse of a different way of relating to the vicissitudes of life. And this shows up not as a thought, a wish or an interpretation, but as a direct experience. It is seen and felt, not construed or imagined. It is e
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Haruki Murakami