Daniel Wentsch
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. -Edward Abbey
What we make of our life—the sum total of thoughts, emotions, words, and actions that fill the brief interval between birth and death—is our one great creative masterpiece. The beauty and significance of a life well lived consists not in the works we leave behind, or in what history has to say about us. It comes from the quality of conscious experi
... See morefrom The Mind Illuminated - A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science by Culadasa John Yates
The limitations we’re trying to avoid when we engage in this self-defeating sort of procrastination frequently don’t have anything to do with how much we’ll be able to get done in the time available; usually, it’s a matter of worrying that we won’t have the talent to produce work of sufficient quality, or that others won’t respond to it as we’d lik
... See morefrom Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. by Oliver Burkeman
Do not demand to be appreciated, but let your satisfaction be the pleasure of others.
– The Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein
To raise grateful kids, be grateful for your kids.
– Janice Kaplan (The Gratitude Diaries)
This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turne
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