self renewal

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

-H Thurman

A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense.

— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

- Mary Oliver

if you're trying to slay Moloch in any realm other than the territory of the human heart, you're gonna fail over, and over

you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail

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

When consciousness changes shape, new dialogues with life can emerge.