rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”
―Oscar Ameringer
―Oscar Ameringer
Gurwinder • Gurwinder (@gurwinder)
In my experience, at least some degree of nondual realization makes handling addictions WAY easier.
It's no longer me handling a force, fixing myself, purifying my psyche. It really feels like what Rumi said:
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself"
It's no longer me handling a force, fixing myself, purifying my psyche. It really feels like what Rumi said:
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself"
Marvin Keilbach • Tweet
Perfection as we typically think about it should be treated more as a way to focus our attention rather than a final accomplishment that we attain.
Shannon Lee • Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
AKIRA THE DON • Tweet
“A person should have two therapists. A man who is stern and tells them how it is, and a woman who's gentle and always supportive. Ideally, the two therapists would be married to each other and had sex about 9 months before the person was born."
Drunk Wisconsin (@drunkwisconsin)
A.A.’s earliest members “tried on” the ideas and insights of these brilliant, often eccentric thinkers, and whatever matched their own experience became part of the patchwork.
Ernest Kurtz • The Spirituality of Imperfection
Agency itself is not necessarily a good thing. It becomes a good thing as a toolkit, developed by people who are also high in conscientiousness, who want good things for the world, and who might otherwise be constrained by narrow perspectives on what counts as socially acceptable action.