Mike Monroe
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Mike Monroe
the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
** It turns out that Your Book actually being Just A Book is freeing. It turns out that living in a world where marigolds matter more than Amazon stars is kinda wonderful.
Sara Petersen • Some truths about writing a book
If you’re wondering “what you should do with your life,” it’s likely that you’re in the limbo between realizing you don’t want what you once did, and giving yourself permission to want what you want now.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Purpose is about pursuing something outside yourself as opposed to pleasuring yourself.
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
What humans require in our ascent is purpose and realism. Purpose, you could say, is like passion with boundaries. Realism is detachment and perspective.
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N.
In cultivating compassion we draw from the wholeness of our experience—our suffering, our empathy, as well as our cruelty and terror. It has to be this way. Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. C
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