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- “I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magno... See more
from A quote from Letter to My Daughter
- To be lonely until it didn't scare her anymore.
from LEARN TO BE LONELY... Dear Ones — A friend of this page asked me today if I wo... | Official Website for Best Selling Author Elizabeth Gilbert by Elizabeth Gilbert
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- If you can write, you’re not fixed. You can be anybody else—you have that possibility.
from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
- This contemplation and collaboration was an incredibly new extension of how I’ve been thinking about work lately. It probably exists in the space my friend Yatú would call “concept composing”. Really working through the forms of language and articulation to reach a shared embodiment.
I’ve been meditating on simplicity a lot. The good life feels lik... See morefrom Architecture Work: Gloria in the Wilderness by Reggie James
It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
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Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comfrom Learn To Do Everything Lightly by Tina Roth Eisenberg
- I end up always going back there, dragged back there in a way, and then it’s just a matter of never, ever repeating myself.
from Dennis Cooper on Writing as Sculpture
Q: Startups are tough. Is it worth it? Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Facebook and Asana. In the clip below, he walks through the common motivators of founders and why starting a company usually isn’t the best way to achieve their goals. Motivator #1: Financial Outcome A lot of… Show moreDuke Stump | The Beauty Of Not Knowing
liminality and knowing vs. doing
Duke walks us through how ‘not knowing’ served him in his life.
Some highlights:
Do it because it ‘feels right’
Less focus around what’s the logical path, and more on the emotional - what feels right
Sit still and listen vs give into the urge to do something
Go from doing to being
Replace what’s your purpose with what makes you curious? - Notice the difference in how these make you feel
Keep returning to this one burning question - what does the world need most that i am/we are most uniquely qualified to deliver - when you can answer this, you can hit the go button
The concept of Santosha - means complete contentment in yoga philosophy. Relation to Equanimity: Allows acceptance of all circumstances, including pleasure and pain.
Some quotes (we love quotes)
“It’s become a courageous act to love who you are”
“My jam is not about driving traffic, doing the best acquisitions, crm. I wake up in the morning to find the soul of the place, establish it and celebrate it”
“I don’t really have a point of view about data and the known, and how everything you do is directly gonna drive revenue.”
“To know is to be in a prison
To not know is to be free” - Christian Murdy
- It’s the journey towards an endless horizon that matters—goals and dreams that move forward with you as you chase them. It’s all about meaningful pursuits—the “moving”
from 19 Great Truths My Grandmother Told Me on Her 90th Birthday by Marc Chernoff