rob hardy

if there’s some odd way that you particularly enjoy doing things, then you should probably prioritize that over any system that anybody else advises you to do.

emotions contain both wisdom and delusion, and by experiencing them without clinging on, we can integrate their wisdom and let go of the delusion.

For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams an

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‘Wonder requires a person not to forget themselves but to feel themselves so acutely that their connectedness to every created thing comes into focus. In sacred awe, we are a part of the story.’ - CA Riley

I want to know

if you are prepared to live in a world

with its harsh need

to change you. If you can look back

with firm eyes

saying this is where I stand.

— David Whyte, 'Self-Portrait' [from Fire in the Earth]

Jung understood that the psyche isn't a mechanism that can be dismantled and studied piece by piece. It's a living reality that responds to being observed, that shifts and transforms under examination, that contains paradoxes and contradictions that defy statistical capture.

A true mystery, like life itself, is not for us to understand with our logical mind. Puzzles can be solved, but never a true mystery. You are such a mystery. There are many systems that claim to solve the mystery that is you. They may attempt to pigeonhole us into categories and behaviours and types, but no human being can be broken down into parts... See more

When David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking