Reminders for myself
“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”
-Kevin Ashton
Never be mean to anybody. Every single moment that will ever haunt you is a time you were mean or careless.
Ava • 28 things I’ve learned
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
Sometimes a dream almost whispers. And I've always said to my kids, the hardest thing to listen to—your instincts, your human personal intuition—always whispers; it never shouts. Very hard to hear. So you have to every day of your lives be ready to hear what whispers in your ear; it very rarely shouts. And if you can listen to the whisper, and if... See more
you have what you want
This one got me good!
“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.” ―St. Augustine of Hippo
Sebastian from Master Class dropped this in circle and it is what I have been wanting... See more
Joe Hudsonx.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]
“There’s always another way, even if you have to get lost to find it.”
From Moana 2
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
I can hear Jesus saying, “Get your hands dirty to build a human society for human beings.” Christianity is not passive but active, energetic, alive, going beyond despair.