Reminders for myself

the subtle posture that has taken a lot of experimentation and failure to cultivate is like 1. realize that most people won’t get you or understand or care 2. be at peace with that, not bitter or vindictive, and look past them for the “few” that get it, and care

The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of being enough.

the deeper you go into any one thing, the more you find everything else quietly waiting there. steve reich discovered this in music: "whatever you pursue, if you really begin to pursue it thoroughly and you really get into many, many aspects of it, it flowers and blooms and begins to get into areas you never would have imagined were possible." what... See more

Instead of saying "you have to practice to get better", I've got an aerials instructor who says "whatever you do is what you'll get better at". I love the reframing.

But there is no substance under the things with which I am clothed. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasure and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their very contingency to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of me but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to te... See more

Generations of Christians seem to have forgotten Jesus’ teachings on nonviolence. We’ve relegated visions of a peaceful kingdom to a far distant heaven, hardly believing Jesus could have meant for us to turn the other cheek here and now.