Reminders for myself
The way you change a person is by getting through not to their head or their will but to their heart.
The majority of our suffering is caused not by events but by our interpretations of them.
Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius
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
americans treat optionality like a virtue when it’s actually a pathology. ppl optimize for keeping doors open indefinitely, never committing, never locking in, because they conflate flexibility with freedom. but optionality is not freedom, it’s just deferred responsibility.
eventually, optionality maximization leads to... See more
you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
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
Ashwin Sharmax.com“Other people’s opinions of you are merely electrical activity in their brains.”
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— @LFeldmanBarrett
Mónica Guzmánx.comI often feel like I’m accumulating insight when I’m doing, but it doesn’t translate into changes in my action and perception unless I take a pause from doing. When acting on the world, I am like a dam filling with potential energy, but it is only in silence and stillness the dam can open up, and the insights I have accumulated can transform into... See more
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection
action AND contemplation!
[see: Fr. Richard Rohr]
Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost
Sasha Chapinx.com