Eli
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Eli
Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
advantaged groups, Jost and his colleagues concluded: “People who suffer the most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it.”
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
In general, even the worst atrocities typically have been committed not simply because they are bad but as a side effect of other actions or as a means to some other end.
William MacAskill • What We Owe the Future
If you want to understand someone’s identity, ask: Where do you want to belong?
Jessica Hagy • Ten Infrequently Asked Questions
"Kierkegaard gives us some portrait sketches of the styles of denying possibility, or the lies of character-which is the same thing. He is intent on describing what we today call "inauthentic" men, men who avoid developing their own uniqueness; they follow out the styles of automatic and uncritical living in which they were conditioned as children.... See more
goodreads.com • Search Results for "Mark Twain"
Creativity is the opposite of anxiety. While anxiety stems from uncertainty and lack of control, creativity channels that uncertainty into optimism.
TH Horton
@Tony_Horton
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May 3, 2018
Motivation May Tip #2: Don't be tied to the outcome. Show up and give it your best today, any limitations you have may be challenges, but don't make them excuses. Do your best and forget the rest. You know the drill.
@Tony_Horton
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May 3, 2018
Motivation May Tip #2: Don't be tied to the outcome. Show up and give it your best today, any limitations you have may be challenges, but don't make them excuses. Do your best and forget the rest. You know the drill.
TH Horton @Tony_Horton
Some of the best advice I ever got about starting in a new organization is: Don’t cannonball. Ease into the pool. I’ve passed this advice on to those joining my own: no matter how talented you are, or how much you have to add, give yourself time to understand the organization before you try to impact it.