self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
I couldn’t quit smoking until I convinced myself that smoking was for losers.
Wasn’t enough to “want” to quit. I had to actively disdain it in an over the top way.
After the identity-belief changed, the rest was (relatively) easy.
Aaron Francis
Wasn’t enough to “want” to quit. I had to actively disdain it in an over the top way.
After the identity-belief changed, the rest was (relatively) easy.
Aaron Francis
Nathan Baschez • Tweet
you cannot impose a culture from the top
it must come from under https://t.co/3xmaLolCnc
“Everyone dreams big until you see the price tag.”
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish
Anna | BACK TO SENSES on Substack
Demons must be named to be defeated, just as our deepest and most vile urges or emotions must be acknowledged to be integrated
Θωμᾶς del Vasto (soul/acc) • Tweet
If you relate to power as something to be opposed and fought, you have surrendered your own.
Emmett Shear on Twitter • Tweet
We have to fall in love with our practice. We have to find a way that what we are doing when we practice is exactly what we want to be doing, and then practice will begin to be what we are doing all of the time, whether we are doing it formally or going through our daily lives.
If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing... See more
If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing... See more
corey ichigen hess • You Have to Love Your Practice
This is one of my favorite poems, from Kahlil Gibran
We read it at the beginning of our week-long intensives. https://t.co/KnKqSGF9DG
Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them; they are waiting for you to send them an email; they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.