Mindfulness & Wisdom
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
Peter Cundill on the power of perspective:
“I think it may be easier to see solutions if you can distinguish between context and content. If you can place a problem within the framework of the larger universe its dimensions are put into perspective and automatically diminished.”
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Endurance is not resistance but finding a way to move with larger forces.
353 — This week on Cargo
We pay the high price of our own emotional freedom when we allow ourselves to be stranded by others’ temperaments and actions.
Imi Lo • Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person - learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book (Teach Yourself)
Gut punch
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all thes
... See moreRalph Waldo Emerson • Self Reliance (Illustrated)
Yowza
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - R.W. Emerson
nails it.
