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“You have created us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” -St. Augustine of Hippo, 4th Century African Bishop
“God whispers: “I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.” -Teresa of Avila, Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun
Teresa of Avila writes: “This Beloved of ours is merciful and good. Besides, he so deeply longs for our love that he keeps calling us to come closer.
In his Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke writes, “Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themse
Most of us will never get the opportunity to live in the bole of a hollow tree, and probably wouldn't much like it if we did. But it is possible to be
In his little book Do You Know Yourself?7, a collection of talks on Christianity and psychology, the late Fr Symeon Kragiopoulos, a Greek Bishop with
Father Symeon should have the last word, I think, because I have written too many already:‘Spiritual work happens secretly in the heart. Externally, l
17 Years to Overnight Success: What Artists Can Learn from Shantell Martin
Thomas Jefferson and the Power of Many Pursuits
Essay The Annual Arc: Your Year as a Story, Not as a Scorecard Most people approach Annual Reviews like accountants — auditing wins and losses, tallyi
"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."—Howard Thur
“One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tri
The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite li
Essay The Annual Arc: Your Year as a Story, Not as a Scorecard Most people approach Annual Reviews like accountants — auditing wins and losses, tallyi
The philosopher Kierkegaard wrote 150 years ago, and he was one of the first psychological philosophers who really wrote about anxiety. He regarded hi
because of their propensity to hop domains, generalists tend to possess a wide set of shallow skills. But measuring them against their rudimentary cod
When risk feels too big
From the Inner Compass deck guidebook by Neel van Lierop, under ‘Open Doors’: “Do not try and open doors with sheer willpower, go for the ones that
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha
We are broken things, amongst other broken things. We are imperfect and characterised by our capacity to fuck things up, yet still we can move increme
How to see with an astronaut's eyes, an illustrated love letter to words and the meanings between them, E.B. White on rehumanizing humanity
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
[Mental Tune-Up #2] Calculate Your Mental State
If your intention is to ‘make art’, then maybe you’ll get a couple of good paintings. You may even get a show or two. But I think of it this way: I do
We are broken things, amongst other broken things. We are imperfect and characterised by our capacity to fuck things up, yet still we can move increme
Richard Feynman on passion, curiosity, and living fully: “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about,
