Reminders for myself
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
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Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
A quote from Existentialists and Mystics
Sam Altman • What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
It seems a common experience in the lives of people with high agency is that they, at some point, metaphorically, lean against a wall and discover that there is a hidden door.
Henrik Karlssonx.comI think you can guide where your attention falls, but you can’t fundamentally change what you care about. Renunciation and abstinence are ways of managing obsession, not a way of ridding yourself of it.
Ava • It's Okay to Care Too Much
Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:
- How something appears to you may not be how it is.
- What is said or shown may not be all there is.
- What is true for me may not be true for you.
- The same words may mean different things to different people.
- What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is
Packy McCormick • visakan veerasamy on Substack
I am one with God.
The Illusion of Our False Self
Whenever upset or anxious, ask “why” at least three times and put the answers down on paper. Describing these doubts in writing reduces their impact twofold. First, it’s often the ambiguous nature of self-doubt that hurts most. Defining and exploring it in writing demands clarity of thought, after which most concerns are found to be baseless.... See more
Tim Ferrissx.comCharlie Munger said learning is changing your behavior.
One of the more humbling parts of adulthood is realizing how many things belong on a list I could title:
"Things I know but haven't learned"
Jackson Dahlx.com“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
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Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein