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We often allow the task to set the boundary rather than setting it ourselves, saying, “I’ll do it till it’s done.”

Notice when you find yourself deferring to other people and giving more weight to their opinions than to your own. It is usually a sign that you are moving away from your core essence.

But can we focus on what feels good, especially when there are people all around the world who feel bad? What right do we have to feel good anyway,

In that moment, fault becomes irrelevant. You’re no longer mulling over who did what or how you’ve been wronged. In that moment, only one thing guides you, and it is this: No matter what it takes, I will never accept my life getting to this point again.

Unchecked loneliness fuels continued loneliness by keeping us afraid to reach out

The brains of social species have evolved to respond to the feeling of being pushed to the social perimeter—being on the outside—by going into self-preservation mode

a crisis of confidence in the relevance of the humanities.

There is a sensual and textured land within yourself that you have been craving to touch and explore for eons.

It was Descartes, too, who formed the project of a School of Arts and Crafts, where each artisan would learn fully to understand the theoretical bases of his own craft; he thus showed himself to be more socialist, in the matter of culture, than all Marx’s disciples