rob hardy

if you stand firmly on a self-lain foundation of patience and trust, someone crossing your boundaries is not so threatening. let them in. see what they do in your space. remove yourself if necessary.

Visa’s founding CEO Dee Hock had a realization. He saw clearly that it was “beyond the power of reason to design an organization” capable of coordinating a global network of financial transactions of the sort that had started to develop.7 Yet, he also knew that nature regularly achieves just that. Why, he wondered, couldn’t “a human organization

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In therapy one must twist language, one must poetize in order to say some of it.

— Eugene Gendlin

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873

I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?

A principle is only useful if you can legitimately take the opposite side. Otherwise it's simply an aspiration that everyone else is also shooting for.

Whatever your spiritual practice is, if it's not making you more honest in your relationships, it's not working

No change, however evil, is introduced without its being presented as an unimpeachable good.