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
“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” – Kevin Kelly
Collaborative Fund • Smart Words From Smart People
the self is no longer a subject but a project . The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé. Knowingly or otherwise, we risk being constantly governed by the question How is what I’m doing
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“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
“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”
“I believe pretty strongly that one’s overarching aim in life and work is to always be making one’s self obsolete.” – Tim Hanson
Collaborative Fund • Smart Words From Smart People
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. —Meditations 12.17