Erlank Pienaar
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These astonishing adaptations are the sum total of myriad small defiances of prediction — chances taken on the improbable and the untested, wild guesses at the shape of the possible — without which bats would not exist. But they do, and we need them. We need bats — “swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together,” D.H. Lawrence cal... See more
Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of the Possible Over the Probable
The intelligence of life and the adaptability of nature. We live in the sacred expression of God’s exploration, life as the only absolute. Love it.
You are caught in the river of life’s expectations. For you to be alive and knowingly flow with the stream of consciousness, riding the crest of the wave into the future of creation becoming aware of itself through your courageous exploration and the difficult assimilation of life’s lessons, traumas and all. Hanging on to excessive, heavy, indulgen
... See more“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work ... See more
Tina Roth Eisenberg • quotes – Page 7 – swissmiss
Only you can change the world. If only I can convince every single human on earth simultaneously of this fact. Life goal.
When you hit Rock Bottom, it's a sign to pause, rest, and reflect.
You've buried your calling deep in your core and suppressed your intuition for so long that your body aches from neglect.
The train wreck; slowly but surely, then suddenly and devastatingly. Your true self waking you up your proto identity, or ego, the assumed reality you’re so desperately hanging on to. Wake up and see, understand, integrate, release, become the you you’re meant to unfold from. Let go to flow.
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you
are fundamentally at war with yourself..
The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you
know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
Own your past. Your life is your lesson. Don’t lie to yourself. In your shadow is your gold.
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it,
play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good
for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it
now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the
signal to spend it now. Something more will aris
... See moreOn creating a Body Of Work as you progress in discovering what you’re thinking of and why you’re thinking of it, then becoming the person who realises that you’re not a fixed entity, but creating yourself anew as you bravely stumble along unbecoming the default mimesis that is hiding your true and ever emergent self.
"Things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. When you
understand that, you abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real
masterpiece." - Leonard Cohen
Authenticity shines, insecurity shouts... Bricks and mortar. Make good bricks. Have ready mortar. Humbly, the house rises. Build slowly but surely. The first house, you were born into. Good, bad, otherwise. The second house, you build yourself. Probably lopsided. Relax, the present determines the past, you’ll see ;) It gets better as you go along. Once you know it to be so. It takes a while, stay with it. The sand you stand on now, was your parents rock, then. Sand is in bricks and mortar; all’s connected. Find your own site, the rock of you, build there. It becomes the sand for the bricks your kids will be made from, and will make themselves and their world of.
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recre
... See moreSometimes it’s nice to remember all the other people one has been. Especially when settling into hard-core middle-age. I love being this me, but I loved being that me, too.