lifestyle
What is worthwhile?
lifestyle
Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
To neglect any one of the three marriages is to impoverish them all, because they are not actually separate commitments but different expressions of the way each individual belongs to the world.
David Whyte • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
“Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.”
―
C.Neil Strait
―
C.Neil Strait
A quote by C.Neil Strait
They wander through the winding passages of the shopping malls prompted and guided by a semi-conscious hope of bumping into the very identity badge or token needed to bring their selves up to date,
Zygmunt Bauman • Liquid Life
You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.
It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.
Dale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living
Your passions should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you. Work for something much larger than yourself.