just be your self & do your own thing

I don’t know how many hundreds of ways there are to say this — I guess as many as it takes until it lands: looking for answers outside of yourself is useless if they don’t lead you to the answers inside you.

Trying to follow someone else’s answers can be dangerous, in about the same way eating wood shavings is dangerous: you’ll feel full while you w... See more

I’m pretty sure the best thing any one of us can do is get a good handle on our own archetypal energies and find ways to train and express them. There are some things out there that you’d probably be world-class at, if you just let yourself follow the natural gifts and inclinations and curiosities that are in you. And stop chasing the ones you’re f... See more

Have the courage to be misunderstood

People will impose their limiting beliefs onto your world because it’s what governs theirs. They will tell you to stay in something you want to leave, will tell you to keep pushing toward something that feels wrong, feels misaligned. You always have a choice. You can yield to expectation, pessimism, set structu

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Kierkegaard: “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

According to Mark, nobody can tell you how you should meditate, fully. The way your mind is fucked up will be radically specific. You will thus have to throw out the rules and make your own at some point. Following instructions too rigidly will lead to useless mental play-acting.

And to live in your own story is to set your own arc — to find your own voice that rings sweetly through the silence. To recognize and accept your desires instead of running from them — whether they are selfish, absurd, mundane. And to accept responsibility for your choices. Choosing who you love. Choosing what you love. Hildegard: we cannot live i... See more