Sparks
Integrity is the art of navigating those moments in which no pre-scripted rules apply. To meet complexity, to make new sense of it, requires willingness to go forward without someone else’s instructions. It means not justifying continued destruction or limiting what is possible by pointing to history, or worse “human nature”, whatever that is.
Integrity
the ‘obvious is usually profoundly significant’.
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
On repetition in writing (poetry)
It has to be said, it has to be heard and it cannot be heard the first time.
This has to be heard, and it has to be heard in the spirit in which is being conveyed
David Whyte in Tim Ferris podcast
The more varied roles we provide for people, the more people we can involve who have their own varied needs and talents. When people can exercise their gifts, can make an impact directly on those around them and can feel that they are needed and valued, they feel a sense of agency that can help them tolerate the frustrations involved in long term... See more
21. Agency Part Four: How Groups Create Agency, and Checklist
Time lives in the body, not as the tick of the clock, but as a pulse in the blood. It is a thought, buried deep in nerve, leaf, and gene.
Wild Clocks – David Farrier
Traveler, your footprints
Are the path and nothing more;
Traveller, there is no path,
The path is made by walking.
By walking the path is made
And when you look back
You’ll see a road
Never to be trodden again.
Traveller, there is no path,
Only trails across the sea
Antonio Machado
We see the world as we are
—Anaiis Nin
“What tense would you choose to live in?” the poet Osip Mandelstam once asked his journal, before answering his own question. “I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle—in the ‘what ought to be.’”