self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
“To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.”
— Bruce Lee
Jordan Bates on Substack
Ray Bradbury talks about the importance of not thinking when he is writing. He says that when he arrives at the typewriter, his task is to be living. To let his soul pour out onto the page. To quiet the mind and let his body do the talking. Then, he checks his work afterwards using the mind as a ‘corrective force’ to refine. But he uses the body to... See more
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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-Carl Jung-
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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-Carl Jung-
…a.i. has made reading you unbearable…
The only way to help people rise above undignified behavior is to teach them that they are dignified. You cannot fight shame with shame.
How to Stop OnlyFans: A Response to Matt Walsh
“The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.” -Jonathan Swift
Resisted grief feels panicked and desperate - like you absolutely *must* find a way to stay moving to escape an unwanted reality.
Accepted grief feels somber but true - like you might not like where you're standing, but your feet are on the ground. And that ground is a resource.