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Jason
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” ~ Anne Lamott
TWN / Issue 13: A Case for Sovereignty
Actions taken in support of dharma change the self. The act of commitment itself calls forth an unseen dharma power.
Stephen Cope • The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
See the world as your self. Love the world as your self. This is a simple reframe—like taking one small step to the side. You only have to love what you already love.
Stephen Cope • The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
The Rule of One for copywriting:
You have one reader. One big idea. One promise. And one offer.
Source: unknown person who is no longer alive, probably in advertising and direct response copywriting in the 1920’s.
“People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being,” said the old man, with a certain bitterness. “Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too. But that’s the way it is.” - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
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The whole world is inside each person, each being, each object. To know any part of the world deeply, intimately, is to know the whole.
Stephen Cope • The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
The extreme of the Shadow response is related to the level of denial not the extreme nature of what is being denied.
Dr. Matthew B. James • Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path
It is, therefore, the sacred duty of every individual human soul to be utterly and completely itself—to be that jewel at that time and in that place, and to be that jewel utterly. It is in this way—merely by being itself—that one jewel holds together its own particular corner of Space and Time. The action of each individual soul holds together the
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In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT how I could better phrase something, I almost always get the most uninteresting, boring, often meaningless answer. As an author that writes to say something meaningful, get upset about this, and in... See more