manifestory
on writing new stories of life into being
manifestory
This is one of my favorite poems, from Kahlil Gibran
We read it at the beginning of our week-long intensives. https://t.co/KnKqSGF9DG
When you solve problems, you get customers. When you give people better stories about themselves, you build movements. When you give them something to defend, you create evangelists.
Elan Miller • The dinner party test
Most people live their lives in between these 2 emotions-
1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.
2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.
The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.
1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.
2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.
The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
one of the hardest habits i've had to un-learn as a writer is the desire to head off any counterargument i can see coming -- it's hard for me to write something knowing it will be misunderstood by some people, but that preventing it will water down the writing
Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost
Dear Future Self,
I'm no longer trying to become you.
Not because I've given up,
But because I finally understand:
You emerge from how gently I hold this moment,
Not from how fiercely I chase the next one.
I'm no longer trying to become you.
Not because I've given up,
But because I finally understand:
You emerge from how gently I hold this moment,
Not from how fiercely I chase the next one.
Tweet
Ken Wilber talks about how we can't think our way to the next level of development - we have to live our way there.
This explains why I can understand concepts intellectually for years before they actually transform how I operate in the world.
Knowing isn't the same as being. Integration requires embodiment, not just comprehension.
This explains why I can understand concepts intellectually for years before they actually transform how I operate in the world.
Knowing isn't the same as being. Integration requires embodiment, not just comprehension.
Su • Tweet
the story you tell about a product, and the culture you build around that story, matters far more than the product itself
Warpcast
Finding the values and principles you live by isn't always easy. Giving yourself opportunities to live by them and make them a default reflex can be brutally hard. But writing them down, sharing them with the people around you, having them do the same, and then all of you practicing coming together in loving, supportive presence, not to call each o... See more