rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
The opposite of resonance is amplification. A choir is the unified expression of voices resonating with each other; a loudspeaker is the amplification of a single voice, excluding all others. A bell resonates, a cannon amplifies. We listen to the bell, we are silenced by the cannon.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
Rational men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any influences, are usually the intellectual slaves of some defunct advertising man.
Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA) • Tweet
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
If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing... See more
corey ichigen hess • You Have to Love Your Practice
practice and self renewal
opportunity is around you, not above you.
talk to new people, even if you don’t know their name, truly talk to them, give them a chance to enter your life. you might be standing next to someone who will change the course of your next year, or someone who just needed one kind word to believe in themselves again.
talk to new people, even if you don’t know their name, truly talk to them, give them a chance to enter your life. you might be standing next to someone who will change the course of your next year, or someone who just needed one kind word to believe in themselves again.
binji • Tweet
Offering ourselves such care might feel strange and unfamiliar at first, as it did for Daniel. Sometimes extending compassion to ourselves in this way feels downright embarrassing. It can trigger a sense of shame about being needy and undeserving, shame about being self-indulgent. But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin
... See moreTara Brach • Radical Acceptance
people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to commit adultery, they do not then go running, in an access of bad conscience, to receive absolution from the wronged parties; nor do they complain unduly of the unfairness, the undeserved embarrassment, of being named corespondent. If they
... See moreJoan Didion • On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue
My general working definition of compulsive/addictive behavior is “a pathological relationship to any mood-altering experience that has life-damaging consequences.”
John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You
“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit” – Elizabeth Gilbert
Oliver Burkeman • Tweet
Quotes and