A Good Life
what does it mean to live a good life?
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A Good Life
As J. Jennifer Matthews puts it, in her book Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are, “we cannot get anything out of life. There is no outside where we could take this thing to. There is no little pocket situated outside of life” to which you could take “life’s provisions and squirrel them away.” Spending your days trying to get... See more
There are people that talk about things they love and people that talk about things they hate.
An activity worth doing:
Create a list of activities and values (max 12) that make you feel content and part of a healthy humanity. Essentially, what does a good week look like to you? It might be photographing, making food, participating in community events, writing to friends or having kind boundaries. Rate your success for engaging with each and... See more
Create a list of activities and values (max 12) that make you feel content and part of a healthy humanity. Essentially, what does a good week look like to you? It might be photographing, making food, participating in community events, writing to friends or having kind boundaries. Rate your success for engaging with each and... See more
The art of living, like any other art, is the art of learning to work creatively within the constraints of the medium.
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
Surrender is a purely inner phenomenon. It does not mean that on the outer level you cannot take action and change the situation. In fact, it is not the overall situation that you need to accept when you surrender, but just the tiny segment called the Now.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
In July 2017, a year before she passed away, Yip-Williams wrote the following letter to her young daughters.
Wendell Berry’s formula for a good life and a good community is simple and pleasingly unoriginal. Slow down. Pay attention. Do good work. Love your neighbours. Love your place. Stay in your place. Settle for less, enjoy it more.
Wendell Berry • The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
why is it so hard to live a slow, ambitious life, with a deep enjoyment of small things fostered with an aspiration to achieve something bigger, better everyday - in the soft and stupid company of your dearest friends.
it shouldn't be too much asking for it all, and having it at once, oh god.
kaavx.comOn finding your second wind:
“Sooner or later, however, a writer (or at least a writer of my type) finds himself at a crossroads: he has exhausted his initial experience of the world and the ways of expressing it and he must decide how to proceed from there.
He can, of course, seek ever more brilliant ways of saying the things he has already said;
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