rob hardy

your life will get easier when you accept evil is a real force in the world thats embodied in humans that exist purely to move your soul away from the pure good and eternal. pretending otherwise is a sheltered and silly idea

life is coming from you, not at you

David Foster Wallace called essays “occasions to watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.”

“A person should have two therapists. A man who is stern and tells them how it is, and a woman who's gentle and always supportive. Ideally, the two therapists would be married to each other and had sex about 9 months before the person was born."

If God were visible, nobody would be able to see anything but God

Philosophy isn't a noun to be grasped but a verb to be lived. It's not about having wisdom but about wisdom-ing - the ongoing, embodied practice of questioning, sensing, responding, and adapting to the world as it unfolds.

all things ceaselessly preach the dharma

my impression of the individuation process is that we all know, at some level, what we need to do... we sense the truths we need to face & the actions we need to take

but it’s a lot of work & suffering and so we spend years trying to negotiate our way out of it. “must I really do this? must I?”

“surely there’s a hack and a shortcut... surely there’s... See more