Stu Gray
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Stu Gray
The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
C. S. Lewis
He begins to introduce us to the great kingdom paradox: at the end of me, I find real life in him.
Kyle Idleman • The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins
You give the hunch enough nourishment to keep it growing, and plant it in fertile soil, where its roots can make new connections. And then you give it time to bloom.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The moral drama here gets to the core of human existence. Notice that the passage says that Eve saw the fruit as “desirable for gaining wisdom.” Satan was not just selling Eve the best fruit in the garden, but something more fundamentally appealing. He was telling Eve that if she ate the fruit, she would be independently wise. The promise was auton
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Working on a problem reduces the fear of it.
It’s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it—even if progress is imperfect and slow.
Action relieves anxiety.
James Clear | 3 2 1 Thursday email | 08/07/25
Fear and
To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don't recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into.
We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out
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“When you’re being creative there is no such thing as a mistake.”
John Cleese * Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
A question worth asking:
When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this happens, ask: ‘What is my take on this?’
When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this happens, ask: ‘What is my take on this?’