self renewal

You can literally be the source of the thing you want to see more of, any time you want

my impression of the individuation process is that we all know, at some level, what we need to do... we sense the truths we need to face & the actions we need to take

but it’s a lot of work & suffering and so we spend years trying to negotiate our way out of it. “must I really do this? must I?”

“surely there’s a hack and a shortcut... surely there’s... See more

one of the most exhausting habits, maybe even addictions, is the desire to want to be seen accurately, judged correctly, understood perfectly

there is power in letting distortion exist

when the need to be understood loosens, the energy returns to what actually wants to be made

When you stop reading, you stop writing.

When you stop writing, you stop thinking.

When you stop thinking, you stop feeling.

When you stop feeling, you stop believing.

When you stop believing, you stop building.

When you stop building, you stop bettering.

When you stop bettering, you stop caring.

When you stop caring, you stop living.

God makes you walk in circles until you’re exhausted enough to just be yourself

Woodworking is brutal. It's painfully slow to learn and very unforgiving. But the sheer act of jumping blindly into a new creative field as a novice really opened up my eyes. You'd be surprised how quickly designing a simple bench will lead you into existential questions about the nature of "sitting."