deep life
“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it” as seen at dullboy in Jersey City
Our obsession with extracting the greatest future value out of our time blinds us to the reality that, in fact, the moment of truth is always now—that life is nothing but a succession of present moments, culminating in death, and that you’ll probably never get to a point where you feel you have things in perfect working order. And that therefore... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Changing the way we fundamentally perceive and experience reality requires seismic shifts in the collective imagination; the difficulty being that our systems of sense-making are deeply entrenched within us; separating ourselves from them is, by definition, existential. Developing our capacity to hold the fear that comes with this, sitting with it... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
> Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced. It cannot be made contingent upon solving some external problem. When one problem is solved, another appears to take its place. Life is a series of problems. If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy—period! Not... See more
Do not live in the future
Notice how much your happiness depends on looking forward to things. The habit of living for the future is the very posture and practice of dissatisfaction.
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade. Miraculous things can be accomplished if you give it 10 years. A long game will compound small gains that will be able to overcome even big mistakes.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
Awesome & wholesome:
Slashdotters were dunking on @stevewoz for selling his Apple stock… then he showed up in the comments with the most grounded reply.
Gave away his Apple wealth, funds museums, pays his taxes, and measures life by joy: “Happiness is Smiles minus Frowns.”... See more