Steven Schlafman
@schlaf
Steven Schlafman
I believe our default state is at the top of this map.
When a child is born, they are pure presence. Unconditional love. Infinite possibility. Simply being. Expressions of God. This is our natural state.
But through societal programming, conditioning, and trauma, we fall from the higher... See more
Consciousness and
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves... See more
Wisdom and
"Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."
—Rudyard Kipling
Ego and
“What would it mean to be done for the day?”
—Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
