Reminders for myself
“As Simon Tugwell comments (Ways of Imperfection, p. 96): “This does not mean that contemplation can be produced to order; in Guigo’s view it depends on God’s good pleasure, it is a ‘grace’ which God gives as and when he likes. It is, more strictly, only a ‘quasi-effect of prayer’, but it is not likely to be given to anyone who has not passed
... See moreBut 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
I love that loop. Write, revise, write, revise. It’s like doing reps in a gym. You can’t expect that 10 pull-ups will add any discernible new muscle. But 30 pull-ups, across three sets, done thrice a week, for a year? Yeah, you’re going to notice the cumulative results of that.
Commit to competence in this coming year
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
— Often attributed to Steven Covey or Viktor E. Frankl