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- 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
I suppose this is what I mean when I say we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives. We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever arenât and people we didnât know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep faith with that, to put it in a box and wait.
... See moreCheryl Strayed ⢠Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
âIf you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.â 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.
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That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more
Maria Popova ⢠Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
"the creator is an artist above all." yes, thatâs what I think may be the most poetic way of stating this conclusion that the world, in large part, does embody beautiful ideas; that if you regard the world as a work of art â first of all, it helps you understand things, and secondly, itâs a pretty good work of art. It has tremendous beauty. It has ... See more
On Being ⢠Beauty as a Compass for Truth
âThe child says: âWhen I am a big boy.â But what is that? The big boy says, âWhen I grow up.â And then, grown up, he says: âWhen I get married.â But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to âWhen Iâm able to retire.â And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it;
... See moreDale Carnegie ⢠How to stop worrying & start living
Allowing and encouraging a quality of play and experimentation in practice is vital, and vitalizing. I canât emphasize this enough. Usually thatâs 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
It may be that we are only here to learn how to love.