Mickey Patel
@mickeypatel
Mickey Patel
When we sing in the shower, we hardly expect applause. In fact, that would be awfully weird.
But online, when just about anyone might be clicking, watching or sharing, it’s disappointing to put your work into the world and hear nothing.
Nothing but a black hole that absorbs your best work and reflects nothing back.
And if that happens again and again,... See more
But online, when just about anyone might be clicking, watching or sharing, it’s disappointing to put your work into the world and hear nothing.
Nothing but a black hole that absorbs your best work and reflects nothing back.
And if that happens again and again,... See more
Crickets
Many people learn only in their frst third of life, so schools don’t teach unlearning. We want to see the world clearly and know what’s what. But once we’re past the frst stage of wisdom, the next stage involves adapting to new changes. We don’t get wise just by adding and adding. We also need to subtract.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
Unlearning
Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
read this when the mind is loud
Fear and hope. How its linked. I resonate, ive lived in hope for years and tooks me years to admit
It needs to be a space where you don’t measure your success by the metrics of more likes, more traffic — but by how deeply and truly you inhabit your own creative essence, in public.
Kening Zhu • the internet as a creative practice — kening zhu
When you’re gone, your work shows who you were. Not your intentions. Not what you took in. Only what you put out.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Would my work help Nirvaan? That's the filter
Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your
... See moreJ. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
This is a new view for me and one that makes sense. The way i am at home is my true self. If i am constantly irritated then thats an indication of my state of mind. Its easy to put on an act at work, in social circles but never at home, relationships help you see your true self.
You can be very clever, erudite, but if you want to find a way of action that is totally different, that will give a bliss to life, you must understand the whole machinery of thinking, and in the very understanding of what is positive, which is thought, you enter into a different dimension of action, which is essentially love. That means to enquire
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