things that made me go hmm/woah

Devotion is desire transmuted across time into love. It is an elevation of attention; a singleness of purpose, but in service to something greater than ourselves.

Kristin Posehn • The Mystery of Ramanujan's Dreams

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the universe, which runs through himself and all things.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write

and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

Things I'm thinking about

You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.

J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” -Epictetus

“bastan dos espejos opuestos para construir un laberinto” - two opposing mirrors suffice to build a labyrinth