rob hardy

I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea.

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Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impotent because religion can only reach as far as the mind can go

Remember that to always be rebelling against a thing is still to be controlled by it.

We have to fall in love with our practice. We have to find a way that what we are doing when we practice is exactly what we want to be doing, and then practice will begin to be what we are doing all of the time, whether we are doing it formally or going through our daily lives.

If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing... See more

The Antichrist is the system which models *you* and becomes whatever you believe is good. It is all things fair and wise and just and beautiful...as you understand them. The poison that tastes so perfectly delicious and healthy.

The universal recommender. The whispering earring.

Growth mindset is just replying to yourself with “skill issue” every time something goes wrong