self renewal

explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.

rob hardy

“It’s the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny’s, wear a hat, whatever you wanna do.” -Norm Macdonald

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

corey ichigen hess • You Have to Love Your Practice

I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?

Lincoln Michel • Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair

"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.

David Chapman • Tweet

Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves home—inch by inch—to their authentic selves.

Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

“Gnosis should be an experience of your own life, a plant grown on your own tree. Foreign gods are a sweet poison, but vegetable gods you have raised in your own garden are nourishing. They are perhaps less beautiful but they have stronger medicine.” Carl Jung

waiting x.com

Until we’re treating ourselves with dignity when we are struggling, we’re not healing.

Heidi Priebe is in motion • Tweet

If you clear the finite games from your body, it stops keeping the score

River Kenna • Tweet

‘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’

Heidi Priebe x.com