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What is worthwhile?
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Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
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
Been thinking about the meaning of life lately
It has no meaning.
This is more effective than trying to find something deeper
We’re here and then we’re gone. That’s it. It’s all a big game and you only get one ride. Enjoy the ride. https://t.co/ncgWFTJ9bo
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.com“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell
― Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell Quotes (Author of The Power of Myth)
Life is lived in the present moment. Don’t let the pursuit of more stop you from enjoying what you already have - enough.
Ali Abdal
learning occurs when you get lots of feedback tied closely in time to decisions and actions.
Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Addiction is really about the relationship between the person and the experience.” It isn’t enough to ply someone with a drug or a behavior—that person also has to learn that the experience is a viable treatment for whatever ails them psychologically.
Daily Review | Readwise
Irresistible -Adam Alter
Curiosity is a stance well suited to the inherent unpredictability of life with others, because it can be satisfied by their behaving in ways you like or dislike—whereas the stance of demanding a certain result is frustrated each time things fail to go your way.