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- "In my view, the realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life."
from Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harriss
- “Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.”
—Arthur Schopenhauerfrom Rob Henderson @robkhenderson
- Mr. Rogers once said, “I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder.” Revelations probably swim past us all the time, we just fail to capture them in our relentless quest for the next byte of data or the next notification. The answers we look for are usually not invented but found. Truth never moves; when w... See more
Gamification once promised to create a better society, but it’s now used mainly to addict people to apps. The gamifiers, like Skinner’s pigeons, prioritized immediate rewards over delayed ones, so they gamified for the next financial quarter and not for the future of civilization.
from Why Everything Is Becoming a Game by Gurwinder
- "The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
from Tweet by David Perell
As awful as these events have been, I am no longer struck by their horror. They all seem to be the near-inevitable, direct effects of how we are running our political economies. I am more struck by our slow ability to react.
from End the Horror, Let the Crisis Change You by Spencer R. Scott
- “We’re a species that rushes through everything, then complains that time flies.”
Steve Maraboli - nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as pr... See more
from When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
Calling forward is a model of communication that we coined several years ago that flips the idea of “calling out” and “calling in” on its head, turning it into something more effective for bringing people together and ending racism. While “calling out” or “calling in” is fighting against what someone did wrong, calling forward is an invitation to
... See morefrom Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps by Tonie Marie Gordon