Reminders for myself

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

Paul Bourget

"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

Wise up - Jordan Harbinger

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When you don’t know what to do in a given situation, oftentimes the best thing you can do is to just do something.

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Why?

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Because doing something — even if it’s not right or perfect or brilliantly executed — has a way of cutting through paralysis.

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Doing something also removes the anxiety of an open loop. It eliminates the

Sure, people need Jesus, but most of the time, what they really need is for someone to be Jesus to them.

— Reuben Welch in The Body Broken by Robert Benson

Discovery and invention

Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was there all along. He simply named and explained it.

The same is true for planets, continents and obscure species. They’re discovered, not invented.

Michelangelo talked about removing all the parts of the marble that weren’t the statue on his way to creating great art. Discovery is like

“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.

All the best ideas come out of the process

Tilicho Lake by David Whyte

In this high place

it is as simple as this,

Leave everything you know behind.

Step toward the cold surface,

say the old prayer of rough love

and open both arms.

Those who come with empty hands

will stare into the lake astonished,

there, in the cold light

reflecting pure snow,

the true shape of your own face.

If we all carry a little of the burden, it will be lightened. If we share in the suffering of the world, then some will not have to endure so heavy an affliction. It evens out.

— Dorothy Day in Dorothy Day: Selected Writings by Robert Ellsberg, Dorothy Day