rob hardy

You don’t ever have to chase magic. You just have to slow down and become present enough for it to reveal itself to you.

Operating under an illness model of care doesn’t just carry powerful implications for the way we conceptualize perfectionism, it impacts the way we conceptualize every aspect of mental health. The slightest pang of sadness, a drizzle of frustration—we register any decline in positive emotion with an assumption of pathology. It’s a cultural tic. The

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opportunity is around you, not above you.

talk to new people, even if you don’t know their name, truly talk to them, give them a chance to enter your life. you might be standing next to someone who will change the course of your next year, or someone who just needed one kind word to believe in themselves again.

if i'd had more agency when I was younger,

I would have acted on some truly terrible decisions that I may never have recovered from

...which makes me suspicious of agency as the latest all-good panacea

The social and political philosopher John Rawls’ thought experiment known as the “veil of ignorance,” proposed in his influential 1971 work A Theory of Justice, provides a useful framework for these questions. When creating the foundations for an ideal society, Rawls contends, we should imagine that we do not know where we ourselves would fall... See more

Repetition doesn't spoil the prayer.