L – Love

I think this might actually be a bell hooks definition:being invested in someone else’s spiritual growth. Also, Ann says that showing up is 100 percent of the work. Love is showing up.

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

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

I wrote this song for Patrick, for our ten year anniversary. I wanted to write a love song that described deep-rooted companionship, where the spark of new love has been replaced by a gravitational pull.

Success comes to individuals who are working hard untiringly and who are making steady progress by putting in more constant effort compared to others.

As my work-driven identity dissolved, I felt a burning ambition across all facets of life. Instead of a desire to achieve goals that society told me were valuable, I felt a hunger to discover what makes me feel fully alive. Instead of a commitment to “winning” other people’s games, I felt a commitment to design a life that I deeply enjoy inhabiting... See more

To reset your dopamine brain, first abstain, self-bind to maintain, then seek out pain.

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.’