Maria Potoroczyn
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Maria Potoroczyn
Universally solid advice:
"...maintain your distance, take care of your core ideas and aims, make sure you know the exact difference between what you do and anything else that’s going on, and move along quietly to the next thing."
- M. John Harrison, Author
There is subtle power and leverage in not being interested in the stuff everybody else is... See more
"...maintain your distance, take care of your core ideas and aims, make sure you know the exact difference between what you do and anything else that’s going on, and move along quietly to the next thing."
- M. John Harrison, Author
There is subtle power and leverage in not being interested in the stuff everybody else is... See more
You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world.
Aaron Freeman • Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral - The Now
There is nothing weaker than a painting that tries too hard. Do what comes easily. When it stops being fun, you’re doomed. If a painting sucks, I quit.
I put everything down and I go take a walk, or go eat at a diner, or meet up with friends, or go to a movie or the Met—whatever. And I’ll know when it's time to go back to work. It will make itself... See more
I put everything down and I go take a walk, or go eat at a diner, or meet up with friends, or go to a movie or the Met—whatever. And I’ll know when it's time to go back to work. It will make itself... See more
It is a better world if our most prominent people are moral exemplars with happy family lives. However, after a decade of meeting billionaires, reading biographies of highly successful people, and building products myself, I’ve come to accept that the opposite is probably true. The highest level of success requires wholly unreasonable people. Musk... See more
And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time.
You can hope your family will examine the
... See moreAaron Freeman • Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral - The Now
As we leave the stadiums and movie theaters and parking lots, as with the best gatherings, we begin to wonder: if it was possible here, where else might we create anew?
Yama does not attempt to challenge so-called unwholesome behaviors head-on (for just the reasons Kate had discovered), but rather sneaks in around behind them in a brilliant psychological maneuver. Here is the brilliance of the yogic technique: Acknowledge the pattern. Study it. Observe it. Respect its power. And, if possible, make an intention to... See more
“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I
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