Reminders for myself

“Without being aware, it’s not possible to really live in a free way. Otherwise we are just in habitual reaction to whatever is arising.” – Jack Kornfield

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Paul Bourget

“School tests weaknesses. Life rewards strengths.

Spending more time on our weakest areas is tempting, but life mostly rewards us for investing in our strengths. Imagine a student who struggles with math but excels at writing. In school, they might spend hours raising their math grades from a C to a B. However, spending the same time on writing migh

The initial basis for that inherent dignity is found in the beginnings of the book
of Genesis, where it says that human persons are actually created in the “image and likeness” of God (1:27)! I always say that, if we really believed it, we could save most people $10,000 in therapy bills! The Judeo-Christian tradition thus begins on an extremely posi

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

― Charles MacKay

"If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your

Two thoughts from R. Buckminster Fuller

“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.”

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”