Chubmeister 5000

History is the vast store of human consciousness adrift in the gulf of time, the present living in the past and the past living in the present. So when I read Shakespeare, Jefferson, Twain, or Machiavelli, I’m with them in time present. It’s why we still read Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Flaubert—what survives the wreck of time... See more

‘If I speak, I tell a lie; but if I remain silent, I am a coward’.

my new working theory on the loneliness crisis is to stop aiming to find friends. to make friends assumes an end goal. rather, aim to achieve the feeling of connectedness. a life filled with connectedness is someone who looks up when they walk around. they smile at the people

“[Regarding] the mystical experience, Romana Guardini put it this way “The mystical experience is realization that although I am not God, I am not other than God either. And although I am not any of you, I am not other than any of you either. And although I am not the Earth, I’m not other than the Earth either.” It’s really a state where we in God ... See more

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”

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Chuck Close

3. Look for someone who demonstrates: -Willingness/capacity to have difficult conversations -Curiosity about their own growth edges -Commitment to solving problems as a team rather than keeping score

@RomeoStevens76 If being stagnant stops one from seeing, the teacher points to work. If the running away stops one from seeing, the teacher points to being still. If not looking for the extraordinary stops one from seeing, the teacher points to the exceptional. If the looking for the