How to Human

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

― Henry David Thoreau

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You think that because you understand "one" that you must therefore understand "two" because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and".

— Sufi teaching story

I will have to remember, ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.’” (Rosamund and Benjamin Zander)

“Don’t pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves (p196)

In a rare 1988 interview, mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked "How would you advise somebody to tap into joy?" In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing and beautiful answer I could have ever imagined: https://t.co/pmJk3qzmVu

Ashwin Sharma x.com

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”

— Anne Lamott

"You can’t find peace by avoiding life."

— Virginia Woolf

“A courageous heart will go forth and engage with life despite confusion and fear.”

— John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

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I might define it like this https://t.co/rwbLTZD9JC

Tim Urban

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