Things that make you go Hmmmm
Anger aims at restoring lost control and often achieves at least an illusion of it.
Maria Popova • Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on Anger, Forgiveness, the Emotional Machinery of Trust, and the Only Fruitful Response to Betrayal in Intimate Relationships
A friend recently reminded me of the Letter to a Young Activist that Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in 1966, and suggested that some of the same issues are again in play now. That letter was originally a personal response to Jim Forest, who was then a young activist and a founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, who felt deep discouragement... See more
Thomas Merton's words of hope for young activists
Here's what I suspect would actually happen if I could send a letter back: I'd agonize over what to say, write something carefully calibrated and wise, and my younger self would read it with mild interest, think "yeah, yeah, I get it," and then continue making exactly the mistakes I made. Maybe they’d have a few new anxieties about whether he was... See more
Joan Westenberg • Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam
A plan is not a list of things that won’t happen. It is an evolving blueprint that structures your mind to notice ideas that lead to progress.
Dan Koe • The Fastest Way Create a New Life
As I’ve been suggesting through my last few pieces, these subjects and news stories are more like the figures on the TV than the ground on which we actually live. Yes, they are real events and have real repercussions. But to most of us, most of these phenomena are not directly related to our lived, moment-to-moment experience. Even if our house is... See more
Everything is In-Between
I’m happy for just 1% of us, or three million Americans to watch the news all day and dedicate their time and energy to devising global solutions together, while the other 335 million of us stand ready to vote or march or do whatever will help them enact the policy they’re working towards. That distribution of labor frees up a lot of time and... See more