rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. always in pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
- what is my purpose in life? vs. what brings me alive at THIS point in my life? What if purpose is just a moment-to-moment conversation with your soul? I love this; via @corymuscara
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
The Forest and
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” -Epictetus
aliveness and
- Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
- “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilkefrom Latest Tweets / Twitter
Courage and
Human beings are always, and always will be, a frontier between what is known and what is not known. The act of turning any part of the unknown into the known is simply an invitation for an equal measure of the unknown to flow in and re-establish that frontier: to reassert the far inward, as yet unknown horizon of an individual life; to make us wha
... See morefrom Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
People who trust themselves trust themselves because they’re honest with themselves. More specifically, they’re honest about what they need to restrict themselves from or altogether avoid. We think that the more we trust ourselves, the fewer boundaries we’ll need; the opposite is true. The people who trust themselves the most are the ones who honor
... See morefrom The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
self renewal and