recovery
Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less.
There's an idea I think I picked up from Robert Kegan, the idea of an "evolutionary balance" in your personality structure. Or maybe it was “evolutionary truce.” The idea, as I remember it, is that your personality is made of many different dynamic forces, all pulling and pushing in different ways. For most of your life, those forces find an... See more
Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
The spiritual awakening nobody talks about is the one where you realize God has been orchestrating black swan events in your life specifically to destroy every false thing you built your identity on, and what you thought was bad luck was actually precision demolition. The reason it had to be unpredictable is because if you saw it coming you would... See more
🕊️x.com“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.”
—Wendell Berry
—Wendell Berry
Steve Schlafman 🐌 • Tweet
“Things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. When you understand that, you abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.” - Leonard Cohen
Henrik Karlsson • Sara Campbell on Substack
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.”
-Anaïs Nin
The more you cling to certainty, the more identity rules your life.