Robin Harford
@robin
I am a multi-disciplinary artist.
Robin Harford
robinharford.com
Readwise and Creativity
And whereas other revolutionary groups, such as the Communists, emphasised maintaining a central power base for reasons of efficiency and control, the Anarchists preferred setting up local power bases that would develop according to the specific needs of each area.
Paul Read, 1984 and the Spanish Civil War
Everybody wants to have a village, but few are willing to be villagers. Building presence takes work. It requires vulnerability, patience, and the willingness to show up even when the room is not full. That might mean hosting an event for ten people when you have ten thousand followers. The cost of community is inconvenience.
Mouthwash Studio • There’s never been a better time to show up
There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations. And it is then, perhaps, that a subtle truth begins to emerge: the only thing we truly possess, the only thing we might, with enough care, exert some mastery over, is our
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
David Foster Wallace (This is Water)