i. Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh

because sadness goes with compassion, sadness goes with determination to remedy the cause. Despair: You’re at the bottom of the hole, there’s no way out. That’s fatalism. But suffering comes from causes and conditions. Those are impermanent, and impermanence is what allows for change.

Mattieu Ricard NYT interview

We share DNA with every other living being. Approximately 98 percent of our DNA is shared with primates, and about 35 percent is shared with plants.... We all come from the same originating source, and we all comprise the same foundational elements.

We are part of a uni-verse, a collection of individual notes in one continuous song; the song that... See more

Beautiful description. All part of the same song.

Sherri Mitchell via cac newsletter

John Steinbeck on ignoring the finish line and starting:

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.”

Focus on the process, on the journey, not on the finish line. There is not finish line, only what we leave behind when we’re gone.

Did we leave it better than we found it?

When you compromise your character, when you shrink, when you self-protect —

you lose energy, joy, and connection.

day 5

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

—Charles Bukowski