Relationship with self

I aspire to Isak Dinesen’s way: work a little every day, without hope and without despair. What a way to live! To make! To be!

sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About

“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way…: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly

Ask good questions.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Fail like a scientist

The Antidote to Imposter Syndrome | The Curiosity Chronicle

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. —Meditations 5.16

My therapist told me this, and it changed my life: "You're not healing to be able to handle trauma, pain, anxiety, depression. You're used to those. You're healing to be able to handle joy and to accept happiness back into your life."

Quiet Wisdom substack.com

“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.” — Rollo May, “Man’s Search for Himself”