Rob Tourtelot
- It’s hard to see which parts of your experience and opinions are distinctive and resonate without sharing them. In my experience, it’s rarely the big grand vision that people are attracted to but rather something more mundane and grounded - something that has a clarity and weight about it that is distinctive.
from Rejecting Specialization by tomcritchlow.com
- Relationships are mapped through the brain and body using three dimensions:
- space
- time
- closeness (emotional)
from The Science & Process of Healing from Grief by Andrew Huberman
- “3 tips for getting started as a writer:
1. Publish on a schedule. Consistency develops ability.
2. Share your writing publicly. Writing is a magnet. It attracts like-minded people.
3. Write about what fascinates you. You don't need to be an expert. Curiosity leads to expertise.”from 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (January 16, 2020) | James Clear by James Clear
- That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more
from Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All by Maria Popova
You can do this now by focusing on the feeling that there is much more to life than you understand.
from How Long Is Now? by Tim Freke
- “The main thing is this—when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.... Say anything, but be respectful. Say—maybe say, Heart, little heart, beat softly but never forget your job, the blood. You can whisper also, Remember, remember." ~ Grace Paley’s "My Father Addresses Me on the Facts o... See more
from "The main thing is this—when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning" ~Grace Paley
The amateur's fear eclipses her compassion for others and for herself.
from Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
We have moments like this in our lives, when something happens to us and we know it’s important, but can’t explain exactly why. It’s a memory that lingers in our consciousness, a moment that remains locked in our heart; maybe it’s a time in our life that we frequently revisit in dreams.
from Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Matthew Dicks
After the death of my mother I noticed that I didn’t have a repertoire of off-the-shelf feelings. Sometimes I was sad, but mostly I was happy in a way unconnected to her going. Sometimes I was forgetful. When I poured her ashes off an old cast-iron bridge into the river she had lived on all her life, it seemed an intimate and friendly act, and I fe
... See morefrom Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life by John Tarrant