Christina Ducruet
@stina
Long time internet nerd; seamstress of people and ideas; designing experiences for soulful self-discovery
Christina Ducruet
labyrxnth.com
“But it is like that C.S. Lewis line from The Inner Ring.” He glanced at the quote, which hangs framed in his office. “‘The true road lies in quite another direction.’”
I am grateful for every experience I have had, because they have taught me a lot and in many respects they have made me who I am. Every difficult experience has taught me that there are two ways you can deal with hardship. You can either feel sorry for yourself, or you can orient towards the idea that life is a set of experiences that train you for... See more
“My advice to you and your team is to just be yourselves,” Rubin explained. “Because if you do what you think the rest of the world wants, one of two things will happen. You might be right, but if you are, you won’t really know why; and if you’re wrong, you’ll be angry at yourself for deviating from what is true to your core. So just be yourself,... See more
creativity and
When I started feeling the drag of winter, I began to treat myself like a favoured child: with kindness and love. I assumed my needs were reasonable, and that my feelings were signals of something important. I kept myself well fed, and made sure I was getting enough sleep. I took myself for walks in the fresh air, and spent time doing things that
... See more“Yet when we understand winter in the natural world, we realize that what we see out there is not death so much as dormancy. Some life has died, of course. But much of it has gone underground, into hibernation, awaiting a season of renewal and rebirth. So winter invites us to name whatever feels dead in us, to wonder whether it might in fact be
... See more“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts
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"Running one mile has more in common with running a marathon than sitting at home.
Investing $100 has more in common with being a millionaire than being broke.
Writing one sentence has more in common with writing a book than never writing one.
It always feels small in the beginning and the big goals seem far away. It's easy to talk yourself out of the
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Finding your life's purpose by reframing envy as a constructive clue to uncover your true ambitions and desires.
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Because unless you're a very rare person, you will have to assemble a vision of your future. It's not going to come ready-made and there won't be a voice from the sky going, you are an accountant or you are a downhill skier. It's going to be something you have to assemble.
And you'll assemble it in bits. you'll have to recreate the original
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