PHILOSOPHY OF THE EVERYDAY
It’s rare that you meet a person who’s truly dedicated. When you do, you’ll find that he or she almost always has a delightful energy and is usually successful. Dedication is the warrior’s prayer unto him- or herself. It’s a mode of fierce concentration, in which you become so attached and devoted to your cause that eventually life has to give you
... See moreStuart Wilde • The Secrets of Life: Revised & Updated
“ We have no chance of knowing whether we understand something until we test ourselves in some form. If we don’t try to verify our understanding during our studies, we will happily enjoy the feeling of getting smarter and more knowledgeable while in reality staying as dumb as we were. ”
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- - Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
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Flossy Fay (@flossyfay)
stop interpreting low effort as complexity. it’s not. it’s just low effort. and the longer you keep participating in it, the more your body forgets what it feels like to be respected without having to earn it.
lina • the “let them” theory
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
Sogyal Rinpoche • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do,... See more
october reading recap 📚
If you are not asking questions and trying to answer them on your own, you’re not thinking. And if you’re using other people’s words to answer the questions you are asking, you are living by other people’s words , and therefore, you are still not thinking.
How to think
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Stop framing your life around answers or goals. And start framing it around questions.
The side-effects of this kind of basic respect appear in unexpected places, and depend on your own personal quirks and hangups. Work ethic improves because you’re willing to work through tough spots and ugly dilemmas. Social interactions improve because you’re willing to accept that you may be judged or misunderstood.
David Cain • Mindfulness is the Opposite of Neediness
discipline doesn’t have to be rigid. it just has to be rooted in love. this is why i prefer the word devotion.
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