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The strongest indicators that you're about to make a terrible decision: 1. Endless overthinking of pros and cons 2. Chasing certainty 3. Chasing even more data instead of feeling your emotions 4. Trying to manage outcomes vs being who you are Let me... See more

Gall's Law is one of those statements that just keeps hitting harder and more deeply the more time I spend with it. At first it seemed false, then a truism, then an interesting insight, and now a foundational belief about the world. https://t.co/9gfnaeAPqH

Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.

This is how the heart makes a duet of

wonder and grief. The light spraying

through the lace of the fern is as delicate

as the fibers of memory forming their web

around the knot in my throat. The breeze

makes the birds move from branch to branch

as this ache makes me look for those I’ve lost

in the next room, in the... See more

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Freedom for both Jesus and Francis was purely and simply freedom from the self , which is precisely freedom for the world . In order to be free for a full and authentic life, we must quite simply be free from our smaller selves.

Francis and Clare were not so much prophets by what they said as in the radical, system-critiquing way that they lived their lives.

We can neutralize the challenge and promise of Jesus and Francis by elevating them into the realm of sainthood and perfection. Or we can ponder their way of living in the world and attempt to follow them, fools though we would be.