rob hardy

journaling only works if you write faster than you can lie to yourself

Digital affordances seem to often constitute what Marshall McLuhan would call ‘hot media’ (1967), which require little active participation on the part of the audience, and are of highly predictable nature. Rosa would insist that to achieve resonance, we would want to cool media down to encourage active participation – a prerequisite for resonant... See more

Have faith: whatever the goal, the universe will provide lessons. Those lessons will either contain the growth to make you strong enough to accomplish the goal, or the wisdom to see a better goal.

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

“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”

― ram dass

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

“It 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.”

—Wendell Berry

we cut the world into pieces with words, distinctions, categories. analogy and metaphor sews things back together, reminds us of the inherent sameness of everything

One of the rarest feelings in the world is resonance. That immediate flicker of recognition when something is finely tuned to you. It deciphers your interiority, feeds your innermost desire to feel seen and known.