rob hardy

“Everyone dreams big until you see the price tag.”

Shane Parrish

Ken Wilber talks about how we can't think our way to the next level of development - we have to live our way there.

This explains why I can understand concepts intellectually for years before they actually transform how I operate in the world.

Knowing isn't the same as being. Integration requires embodiment, not just comprehension.

well-arranged words rearrange reality.

Demons must be named to be defeated, just as our deepest and most vile urges or emotions must be acknowledged to be integrated

Unreasonably effective writing advice:

"What are you trying to say here?

Okay, just write that."

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

you don’t need to understand yourself fully. you can’t. you are an organism of complexity beyond your own comprehension all you need to do is notice what you notice, meet it with love & warmth, and allow yourself space to bloom

A life in which we make mistakes and take full responsibility for those mistakes, without recourse to blame, is in some ways even more admirable than a life of impeccable morality. Our very human nature is to grow. So the purpose of your life is not a fixed mark. It is an ever-changing alignment to the core of your humanity, to your ability to forg... See more