Reminders for myself
The Art of Not Being Offended
The content discusses the importance of not taking offense, highlighting that others' actions stem from their experiences, promoting understanding, compassion, and personal detachment to foster better relationships and personal happiness.
thecouplesplace.netDifference is not, as I am always saying, inherently a threat. It is often a gift. It is certainly more interesting. It is only when we become defensive and defended, anxious and triggered by that difference that it causes problems.
Elizabeth Oldfield • Deep roots and wide branches
I’m sure I’ll continue to cringe at my own writing but I’ll try to follow these three guiding principles: don’t write your feelings, don’t write cliches, and don’t use self-deprecation. Often, vulnerability is just telling the darkest truth, the truth you’re the least inclined to share.
Call Me Charlie
As the great mystic Saint John of the Cross said, “In order to come to the knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in which you know not.” I love this quote. It’s entirely paradoxical.
Adyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
It becomes a pleasure after about the fifth, possibly the sixth draft. At that point it begins to be fun because you begin to have an inkling of what you’re trying to say. You never know what you think until you try to set it up in a sentence, maybe fish it into the net of a metaphor. The writing doesn’t get easier, but the work becomes play.
Lewis Lapham The Art of Editing No. 4
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... See more
The Illusion of Our False Self
The best thing you can do is see people as you see yourself. You can change. You have infinite potential and flexibility, as do other people. Treat them that way. Love them, regardless of whether they violate your personal rules. Then dedicate the rest of your life to becoming the type of person who can reshape the rules of their environment, so
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