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“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise you’ve arrived.”

“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

Christians believe purgatory exists because of God’s divine mercy, but even here on earth, perhaps the waiting period is more merciful than we realize

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

And there’s a lot of positive evidence. It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience.

It is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individu

Aesthetics are your problem and mine. Nobody else’s. The fact of the matter is I want everything we do, that I do personally, that our office does, to

‘As we work to reverse these long-term socio-economic and socio-political trends to foster more connections to others, stronger communities, more pro-

Maybe what we need is not an object to be known but a cause of wonder.

If you insist that anything too common, anything come by too cheaply, must be boring, then all the wonders of the Singularity cannot save you. You wil

Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not deso

Your next great ride is building in a yet unseeable swell. And when it does suddenly make its appearance, you’ve got to paddle like Hell to catch it.

I learned this formula for success from Charlie Munger: 1. Don’t sell stuff you don’t want to buy. 2. Don’t work for people you don’t want to become.

Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to

Don’t forget this: Nothing is truly ever ordinary. I’m telling you, Protect the truest things about you and it will become easier to hear the truth ev

Have you ever told a lie and then forgot it was a lie? When you tell a story for long enough, you begin to believe it. We adorn ourselves with any num

If you want to decipher who you are, it’s good to begin with the question of what stories have been told about you. Do this not because they are true

Simone Weil said, “Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation

People who trust themselves trust themselves because they’re honest with themselves. More specifically, they’re honest about what they need to restric

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does." ~Terence McKenna

maybe "lie constantly to everyone for convenience" is a bad cultural value that causes more problems than we realize

Many of us, in pursuit of the spiritual, become woefully neglectful of the physical.

According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d cal

Meditation Tips for a Lifetime of Practice

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I’ve learned that this world has no commitments to my body. No one will try to understand it more than I will. I learned the necessity not only of lis

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." ― Albert Camus

When you take the time to sit alone with your thoughts, you can find who you want to be; not who your parents want you to be, not who your friends wan

Solitude can be a profound teacher. It can teach us how to hold ourselves—how to affirm ourselves and listen. How much is the sound of your own voice

It was only because I showed up and I paid attention," he said. "I looked for places to go. I looked for communities to join. I looked for ways to bec

Fulfillment... is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal... It has an end. It comes to the end and has to star

it’s so easy to derail our own joy by looking around at someone else’s life or worse — the imaginary life we think we should have by now

The role of a successful place is to provide a catalytic context for missions.

when we find the convergence of where we belong and where we are encouraged or at least allowed to make a contribution, the magic happens.

I am very affected by place. Actually I think everyone is. Probably more than they realize. Our surroundings act on us. Some foster chaos, others enco

Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impo

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and the

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It

I want them to take away from the book the same thing they would take from the concert. I want them to think, well, I feel better now. I feel upli

Bubbling excitement for what the day holds. Novelty in the smallest of things. Unburdened by the clouds of worry that dim an adults life. Possibility

I have sat through enough screenings and Q+A’s for friends who’ve made movies to now identify a secret weapon that no amount of money or production pa

The most important question for me is, "How do I want to spend my days?" And the answer is: I want to spend my time thinking, creating, and ideating w

the right motivation is never a technology trend and always something far deeper and more personal, and the right question is never “What is your AI s

Being honest also helps. Every time I’ve shared the burdens and realities of what I’m going through with others, either 1:1 or publicly, the universe

creating conditions for collective intelligence to thrive.

I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read - Foundation for Economic Education

the desire to connect things together

When pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or celebrated person. You’re going to be an oddity that the most in-the-know pe

It’s possible for other projects to be sexier, more lucrative, and more attention getting, however their purposes are less unique than yours.

I appreciated Nvidia’s founder talking the other week about what it means to work in a zero billion dollar industry. It means really believing in some