rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet đą
rob hardy
ungated.life
Perfectionism represents the natural, innate, and healthy human impulse to align with our whole, complete selves. A restored perfectionist understands that itâs not that you long for some external thing or for yourself to be perfect, itâs that you long to feel whole and to help others feel whole.
Katherine Morgan Schafler ⢠The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Old paradigms die hard. Puking, sweating, convulsing every vestige of What No Longer Works into a heaping pile of shitty compost that will eventually grow something new and beautiful, but not until youâre scraped raw of every notion of what that might be.
McCall Erickson on Substack
The Forest and
âAdvice? I donât have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If youâre writing, youâre a writer. Write like youâre a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and thereâs no chance for a pardon. Write like youâre clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and youâve got just one last thing to say, ... See more
A quote by Alan W. Watts
Great works are unsettling, disorienting, they confound our expectations. In this definition, itâs almost impossible for a great work to be considered ârefinedâ at the time of its creation, because its elements are alien, they have not yet had time to have been weighed and evaluated.
Visakan Veerasamy ⢠on scaffolding
âIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.â
âWendell Berry
âWendell Berry
Steve Schlafman ⢠Tweet
recovery and
The technique of merging rests upon the rock of gentleness. When we are gentle towards others, it does not mean that we allow them to walk all over us. It simply means that when we decide to take a stand in anything, we do so with respect towards others. By adding a soft touch to our daily doings, we create curves where there are hard edges and we
... See moreRichard Rudd ⢠The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
In 1909 the Futurists refused reverence and predicted, even begged for their overthrow by the next generation: âYounger and stronger men will throw us in the wastebasket like useless manuscripts,â they cried. âWe want it to happen!â Like all good manifestos, they built in their own obsolescence, clearing the way for the next vision of the future.
Julian Hanna ⢠The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves homeâinch by inchâto their authentic selves.