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- Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
Eric CarleLael Johnson added 2h ago
- We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
from Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity by Sindhu Shivaprasad
Lael Johnson added 2h ago
- I hope you get to know your inner world. I hope you thrive financially while living your values. I hope you focus less on what you achieve and more on who you become. I hope you learn to be kind to yourself. I hope you fall in love with the process. I hope you see the point of pursuing passion work is not to drain yourself to create work that eclip... See more
from Check your Pulse #49 by Sari Azout
Lael Johnson added 13h ago
- My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?!
It's a "network university," which is our fancy term for a new type of social institution: one that transforms an existing network into a social commons where ppl can learn, do research, and create groundbreaking wor... See morefrom Tweet by Tyler Alterman
Lael Johnson added 13h ago
- The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way that they’ve been hijacked as ideological programs of cultural change by many elite universities. I mean humanities broadly understood as the exploration of what it truly means to be human and the sk... See more
from A Bull Market in the Humanities
Lael Johnson added 13h ago
I understood immediately that certain things—attention, great energy, total concentration, tenderness, risk, beauty—were elements of poetry. And I understood that these elements did not grow as grass grows from a seed, naturally and unstoppably, but rather were somehow gathered and discovered by the poet, and placed inside the poem. —Mary Oliver
from The Meditator's Dilemma: An Innovative Approach to Overcoming Obstacles and Revitalizing Your Practice by Bill Morgan
Lael Johnson added 1d ago
Lael Johnson added 1d ago
All of the things we want, or have been taught to want, flood in. It turns out our wants are not as clear as we may have thought. As we attempt to sort through the endless images offered up by our desires, we realize they come from many sources: what our culture values, what our family considers worthwhile, what our friends or social circles prize,
... See morefrom Mind Magic by James Doty
Lael Johnson added 1d ago
- There is always something else to strive for – and this keeps most of us in a constant, sometimes painful, state of never-satisfied striving. And that striving for something that we do not yet possess is called desire. Desire doesn’t bring us joy because it is, by definition, always for something we feel we lack.
from How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides by Aeon
Lael Johnson added 1d ago