Erlank Pienaar
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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,
... See more“It can be hard to appreciate just how much the world will give you what you want after you stop waiting for it to give you what you deserve.
Stop waiting for the world to recognize your potential; start giving the world something positive. Don’t wait for a friend’s apology; reach out and reconnect. Instead of waiting for the perfect partner, become... See more
Stop waiting for the world to recognize your potential; start giving the world something positive. Don’t wait for a friend’s apology; reach out and reconnect. Instead of waiting for the perfect partner, become... See more
Farnam Street • Cold Water
On the importance of tacit knowledge and why reality has a surprising amount of detail. Without some kind of direct experience to use as a touchstone, people don't have the context that gives them a place in their minds to put the things you are telling them.
The things you say often don't stick, and the few things that do stick are often
... See moreAlexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world.
“How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How... See more
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
"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.
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.
Writer and designer Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, on what causes old age:
“The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia.
Habit is necessary; but it is the habit... See more
“The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia.
Habit is necessary; but it is the habit... See more
3-2-1 Thursday newsletter - James Clear • 3-2-1: How to Connect With Others, What Causes Old Age, and the Recipe for Success
Traveling light means high uncertainty, but also high flexibility, high opportunity. Habit is hanging on, possessed. Letting go of possession(s), become light and open to possibility.
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... 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.
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
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