The Good Life
Try it! Instead of 'mother-in-law,' maybe call her "spiritual teacher", and her visit counts as an "intense spiritual retreat”.
Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
You are part of the universe; you are made of stars. When you look at your loved one, you see that he is also made of stars and carries eternity inside. Looking in this way, we naturally feel reverence.
– Thích Nhất Hạnh
You are as big as the things that make you angry.
– Kevin Kelly
Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work.
― Derek Sivers
Rick Rubin on success
Don’t just resist cynicism — fight it actively. Fight it in yourself, for this ungainly beast lies dormant in each of us, and counter it in those you love and engage with, by modeling its opposite. Cynicism often masquerades as nobler faculties and dispositions, but is categorically inferior. Unlike that great Rilkean life-expanding doubt, it is a ... See more
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
Rituals are not about doing something exceptional together. They are about the everyday. How can we do the most mundane of things together to help make each other’s lives more livable?
Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. • Rituals (with your homies) make life worth living
“In the west today most people are going to have two or three marriages, two or three committed relationships in their adult life. It’s just that some of us are going to do it with the same person.”
– Esther Perel