Ponder
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” - Sun Tzu
Win in your mind. Then open up the possibilty to win in reality.
When I was younger, he used to tell me that one of the best things about life was that you never run out of new material to learn and absorb, that even at his old age, he still felt young in the face of new information.
Elle • How to Get Smart Again: Building a Media Syllabus
In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery. A mystery draws us in, leads us on, lures us. (A duty may numb us out, turn us off, tune us... See more
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
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