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- “My belief is that the two universal paths are great love and great suffering,” he told me. For much of his life, Rohr has used suffering as a spiritual tool to help him learn to be humble. “I pray for one humiliation a day,” he told me. “It doesn’t have to be major.”
from Richard Rohr Reorders the Universe by Eliza Griswold
- Pain has been my greatest teacher in life. If it weren’t for pain, there would be none of this art that you see. Pain has allowed me to know my self. To know God. To understand others and have more compassion. Less judgment and more love. Pain has caused me to search the deepest parts of my being so that I could see what is beyond the pain. Sometim... See more
from Instagram
- In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.
When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.
Late at night... See morefrom The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel | Poetry Foundation by Jeffrey McDaniel
- It’s time in my life to make fewer arguments for things and do more sitting down with things to just experience them. ‘I don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt,’ is how Namwali Serpell’s latest novel, Furrows, begins. It is also one way of summarizing how the current shift in my personal character is changing my writin... See more
from Interview with Nigerian author, Immaculata Abba | The Republic by Immaculata Abba
- I can’t tell whether this is so obvious it doesn’t merit mentioning, or so fundamental it’s hard to see, but I’ve noticed recently that there seem to be two core approaches people take to establishing trust in communication. Call them “truth-seeking” and “community-seeking.” Most people seem to have a dominant social mode in which they operate basi... See more
from Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
- Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.”
- The only productive way to answer ‘What should I do now?’ is to first tackle the question of ‘Who should I become?' Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living
Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to come. You choose.
When talent doesn’t hustle, hustle beats talent. But when talent hustles, watch out.
When you work only for money, without any love for what you do in and of itself, your work will lac... See morefrom 101 Design Rules by wearecollins.com
Fulfilling work and Whoa
- People think there’s no way that you could have succeeded unless you are faking it. And sometimes I want to tell them, ‘No, the ingredient you’re missing is God.’
from Akwaeke Emezi Won’t Tell You How to Feel