The Good Life
I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.
– Rosamund Stone Zander
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
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
Hate requires vast amounts of energy to maintain. It is something that needs to be fed by ongoing narratives of victimhood and identity. Love, on the other hand, requires no energy at all, because it is the very energy of reality itself. Love requires nothing. Hate requires continual feeding and fueling.
Martin W. Ball • Entheogenic Liberation: Unraveling the Enigma of Nonduality with 5-MeO-DMT Energetic Therapy (The Entheogenic Evolution Book 8)
Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lie our freedom and power to choose a response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.
Not a quote from Viktor E. Frankl, even if it sounds very like his work.
Noticing that space, being aware of it, is a game changer, also a challenge renewed every instant.
Develop a habit of working on your own projects. Don't let "work" mean something other people tell you to do. If you do manage to do great work one day, it will probably be on a project of your own. It may be within some bigger project, but you'll be driving your part of it.
How to Do Great Work
There are a lot of forces that will lead you astray when you're trying to figure out what to work on. Pretentiousness, fashion, fear, money, politics, other people's wishes, eminent frauds. But if you stick to what you find genuinely interesting, you'll be proof against all of them. If you're interested, you're not astray.