The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.

-Bonnie Friedman

If you look at the trees and the mountains through windows that are wet from the rain of a storm, everything looks blurred and misshapen. Recognize your filters. Everything becomes beautiful when you change.

The good life is one inspired by love

and guided by knowledge.

(Bertrand Russell)

Pitting what you like against what you don't like -

that is the disease of the mind.

Your first thought

in the morning should be:

Thank you.

It’s almost like boredom doesn’t exist, like difficulty doesn’t exist, scarcity doesn’t exist. And a feeling I’ve been having a lot lately is that scarcity is often what creates meaning. When you’re surrounded by infinite possibilities, when you know around the next corner is another video that might be funnier, you’re never going to sit with the t

Because of our phones, we are forever elsewhere.

(Sherry Turkle)

Zen can essentially be reduced to three things.

Everything changes;

everything is interconnected;

pay attention to it.

“Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not.”

(Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

“Beauty is not in the face, beauty is a light in the heart” - Khalil Gibran