rob hardy

Forgiveness is not the absence of vengefulness. It's feeling the fullness of a righteous, justified grief at a genuine injury, & choosing mercy instead. It's a reclamation of dignity & power.

It's not saying there was never a debt! Only that it doesn't have to be paid back.

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

— Maya Angelou

The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for the next step.

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way that they’ve been hijacked as ideological programs of cultural change by many elite universities. I mean humanities broadly understood as the exploration of what it truly means to be human and the... See more

"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.

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