self renewal

“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit” – Elizabeth Gilbert

A true mystery, like life itself, is not for us to understand with our logical mind. Puzzles can be solved, but never a true mystery. You are such a mystery. There are many systems that claim to solve the mystery that is you. They may attempt to pigeonhole us into categories and behaviours and types, but no human being can be broken down into parts... See more

I am not sure that I exist, actually.

I am the writers that I have read; the people that I have I have met; the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

— Jorge Luis Borges, 1981

Universities claim to promote social mobility but inadvertently perpetuate social hierarchies, whereas the military is an explicit hierarchy that inadvertently promotes social mobility.

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

‘I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It is knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth and then simply doing it.’ ⁃ Natalie Goldberg, ‘Writing Down The Bones’