Kelly W

“”Purity of heart,” says Kierkegaard, “is to will one thing.” Put differently, a soul at peace with itself is a soul given over to an indomitable love, for love commands, and when its commands are deeply felt, our inner life is gathered into a coherent and purposeful whole.”

Not in Utopia, subterranean fields,
Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!
But in the very world, which is the world
Of all of us,—the place where in the end
We find our happiness, or not at all!

Note: happiness is found here, not in still life

Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

“I'm better at some things than Jessica, and she's better at some things than me. One of the things she's best at is judging people. She's one of those rare individuals with x-ray vision for character. She can see through any kind of faker almost immediately. Her nickname within YC was the Social Radar, and this special power of hers was critical

“There's a fairly common assumption that to know yourself better, you should attend to yourself more—journal, introspect, meditate on your patterns. And there's something to this.

But also. The more you make yourself an object of attention, the more you reinforce the narrating self—the self that has problems, the self that needs fixing, the self

“There is a very interesting book cited by Byung, called “In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust, in which the narrator writes down his experiences in the form of a novel that states the importance of memory in daily life, and how time is of radical importance to the creation of memories, which are only occurring when we gather experiences. One