Thought provoking
These thoughts appear to be real, but every single one of them is false. Yes, they emerge in our minds, and we are used to them being there, but they do not represent the truth about who we truly are and what we are here to do.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
Writing is mystagogy. It is leading oneself, or others, into a great mystery. Their own lives are a mystery. It is a good place to start.
The normal and the everyday is a mystery, too. Yet few people have the eyes to see it that way
The normal and the everyday is a mystery, too. Yet few people have the eyes to see it that way
Luke Burgis • Why I Write
"I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
― Hermann Hesse
― Hermann Hesse
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha
Life Philosophy
Understanding Yourself
You don't have direct access to reality—no one does.
Your brain constructs reality from bits of incoming information. What you perceive is a simulation crafted by your mind. Remarkably, you have the power to shape this simulation into either a heaven or a hell.
Your beliefs shape your capabilities.
"Whether you... See more
Understanding Yourself
You don't have direct access to reality—no one does.
Your brain constructs reality from bits of incoming information. What you perceive is a simulation crafted by your mind. Remarkably, you have the power to shape this simulation into either a heaven or a hell.
Your beliefs shape your capabilities.
"Whether you... See more
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TWENTY WAYS TO MATTER
Excavate the truth beneath the truth beneath the truth —
the deeper you go, the simpler it gets:
the longing, love, insecurity, rage, loss —
all of it part of the same fabric,
all just a story
emerging from the quantum foam.
Move through the world
knowing that everyone around you
is doing the best they can,
that humanity is capable
of
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live... See more