rob hardy

if you're trying to slay Moloch in any realm other than the territory of the human heart, you're gonna fail over, and over

you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail

The fear of making mistakes is a particularly strong dampener on one’s learning. You can’t learn if you can’t make mistakes. I like the idea that mastery is simply a very intimate understanding of all the possible mistakes one could make.

The first step to a transformed world (or a transformed life) is a tough one: we have to give up our ideas of what the transformation looks like. To surrender our visions of preferred outcomes. Trust me, whatever actual transformation comes out of living with Reality day by day, it’s going to be much better than whatever plans your current ego has... See more

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

God makes you walk in circles until you’re exhausted enough to just be yourself

Wanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.

Imagine how many beautiful things were left uncreated because the person who had the spark of an idea just decided not to act on it