đź’ Things to return to
“The anditode to doom is curiosity.”
-Ezra Klein
I’ve noticed that my most age-fluid ( and joyful! ) friends truly understand human frailty.
And when we consistently recognize our frailty, we don’t expect a linear path, nor do we put too much of our value into something that can disappear.
And when we consistently recognize our frailty, we don’t expect a linear path, nor do we put too much of our value into something that can disappear.
Substack • Age-Fluidity
Allowing and encouraging a quality of play and experimentation in practice is vital, and vitalizing. I can’t emphasize this enough. Usually that’s how we learn best as human beings, and it keeps things from getting rigid and feeling heavy.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
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Pain is not tragic. Pain is magic. Suffering is tragic. Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our becoming.
Glennon Doyle • Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
Celebrating 300 issues with a new community for DD readers 🎉
- I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Develop a keen sense of what you love . Be devoted to the art of finding great and small loves, of nurturing old loves, and kindling new ones.
30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be,... See more