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One lesson to learn from his death is that if we are to live well to the end, we need to be able to freely discuss when a life is complete, without shame or taboo. Such a discussion may help people to know what they really want. We may regret their decisions, but we should respect their choices and allow them to end their lives with dignity.
It is rare that anyone gets through an Earth School journey without collecting some pretty gnarly wounds. So rare, in fact, that it seems to me that trauma is an inescapable part of the Earth School curriculum. Not a bug, as they say, but a feature.
It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so... See more
Consistency heals what intensity can’t.
Everyone wants the breakthrough, but healing comes from the tiny things you do every day.
The slow breath.
The gentle release.
The walk instead of the spiral.
The decision to stay present instead of running... See more
He suggests we need to fundamentally reconsider what we’re measuring. It’s not about simply rejecting productivity gains but capturing them “as genuine improvements to human flourishing instead of feeding them back into an endless cycle of escalation”. This might mean measuring ‘time affluence over output volume’ – free time as a success metric –... See more
And if I know one thing it’s that if you’re experiencing a genuinely moving moment, if you’re really in it, the absolute last thing you want or think about doing is taking out your phone, cutting through it and cheapening it. The best love is quiet. The best confidence is quiet. And so are the lives with the most meaning.