rob hardy

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

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“Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer.”

—Anthony Bourdain

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

— Maya Angelou

In a broader sense, we are realizing in the modern area that strict rationality on it's own is not enough to hold our societies and cultures together. However, pure chaos obviously does not work either. We need a dialectic between order and chaos, form and emptiness, structure and flexibility, that allows us to gain the benefits of modernity while... See more

The unspoken contract of a workshop is this: the audience grants you temporary control of their attention (and actions) in the belief that you will transmute it into something new and valuable. If you violate this contract by asking too much before returning sufficient value, then they grow suspicious of your authority, their goodwill evaporates,

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one of the greatest tricks the devil ever played on humanity is convincing us that there is any such thing as absolute certainty. the only time things are 100% clear are carefully constructed fictions.

anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief