perspective change
Resolutions are restrictive whereas intentions are abundant. I want to add to my life, not take away from it.
Julianna Salguero • how to plan your year
"Running one mile has more in common with running a marathon than sitting at home.
Investing $100 has more in common with being a millionaire than being broke.
Writing one sentence has more in common with writing a book than never writing one.
It always feels small in the beginning and the big goals seem far away. It's easy to talk yourself out of the
... See more
Finding your life's purpose by reframing envy as a constructive clue to uncover your true ambitions and desires.
TRANSCRIPT
Because unless you're a very rare person, you will have to assemble a vision of your future. It's not going to come ready-made and there won't be a voice from the sky going, you are an accountant or you are a downhill skier. It's going to be something you have to assemble.
And you'll assemble it in bits. you'll have to recreate the original
... See morebuild a world, not an audience — kening zhu
keningzhu.com
basically joseph campbell taught me to ritualize almost everything i considered mundane. like my morning coffee, my afternoon walk and my bedtime reading. i learned over time this is because ritualizing ordinary moments makes them sacred. and when something becomes sacred, when you give it meaning, it gives meaning back to you.
Ashwin Sharmax.com
That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine, the coffee to a prayer.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration .
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Live Ritualistically — Bring sacred intention into ordinary acts. Infuse daily life with intention. Turning ordinary acts—like eating or walking—into sacred rituals that can ground you in the present moment.