Reminders for myself
Forever – is composed of Nows – 690 | The Poetry Foundation
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The basic insight is that compassion—which combines an awareness of suffering with a desire to alleviate it—can be applied to ourselves, just as it can be applied to people in the outside world. And compassion can be learned.
Dan Shipper / Superorganizers • You Grow from Your Edges
If we keep lumping these two together and think that aversion obviously is discomfort and discomfort obviously is aversion, then we never get a good understanding of this very basic issue. It is as though a part of us thought that the function of pleasant things is to generate attachment and the function of unpleasant things is to generate... See more
Corrado Pensa • Discomfort without Aversion: A Little Miracle, by Corrado Pensa
“What do you want to avoid?” he asks. “Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you’re unreliable it doesn’t matter what your virtues are. You’re going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.”
James Clear • Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught You
More than half of the value of writing an essay lies in how it forces you to reorganize and refine your thoughts. The finished essay itself is a bonus.
François Cholletx.comThe ultimate success metric is whether you get what you want out of life
alex • Your Way Is the Only Way
“Sin” derives from the Greek word for missing the mark : human beings are aiming creatures.
Focusing
Being numb to your emotions is a one type of dissociation, but equally common is being numb to your preferences (pleasure).
Emmett Shearx.com