Brian Cloutier
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Brian Cloutier
To love someone to the point of creation
We're practicing a willingness to simply return to the present moment without judgment, without disappointment, without contraction with a mind that is standing truly free of the past. It's always possible to recover this freedom, no matter what happens. […]
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This ability to begin again has ethical force as well. It's actually the foundation of forgi- Good judgment comes from silence and rest and time to think.
from Ideological Abuse, Busyness, and the Importance of Rest
We're practicing a willingness to simply return to the present moment without judgment, without disappointment, without contraction with a mind that is standing truly free of the past. It's always possible to recover this freedom, no matter what happens. […]
here's no real reason why the next 10 minutes in the gym can't be the best you've had in yea
... See more- Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
- Jorge Luis Borges
- While it’s probably one of the corniest things I’ll ever write in this column, I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you. It’s the product of devouring ideas, images and pieces of culture not ... See more
from Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci
... See morefrom Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
