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If you genuinely feel safe inside you won’t be trying to make everyone else feel comfortable all the time, in fact you’ll be quite comfortable yoursel

The thing is, the only way to become a secure person is by making real peace with insecurity - because to develop real security, you must learn to sit

These moments feel uncomfortable initially, but something interesting happens: your body starts telling you before your brain does that peace exists w

The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn’t scare you, doe

It’s vital to establish some rituals—automatic but decisive patterns of behavior—at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Nobody ever talks about how the concept of the Individual must be so integral to what the universe is trying to accomplish that it's willing to lose t

“the unfed mind devours itself” - gore vidal

The point is not to try harder; it's to resist life less.

@erinmartina @emokendallroy When God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir?

7 psychological realizations that took me decades to develop, but will take you seconds to read: (I help silicon valley CEOs understand their emotion

Most people try to change their sense of "not good enough" from the head. But it’s actually more effective to change it physically in the body. This

Here is a 7-minute practice you can do: 1. Find a trusted friend and sit across from each other 2. Relax your body and take a deep breath in 3. One a

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you. Nobody wants you to do what you want to do. They want you to go on the

Giving up desire after desire is a lengthy process with the end never in sight. Leave alone your desires and fears, give your entire attention to the

When clients tell me they don't know how to access what they want, I ask them what they're angry about. Anger is the fastest shortcut to buried desire

There is no greater power than abandoning all power, no truer authority than infinitely surrendering to things as they are, stripping away everything,

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself

Zen is a practice. Zen is medicine you take to clear your sickness. This will not happen if you only read the prescription that the doctor gives you.

" Uncovering and making explicit the arbitrary nature of core beliefs is the common goal of Zen and all psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.”

I’m studying the subversive use of power. I’m making a list: * claiming you can feel something in me that I can’t feel myself. frame-control masquera

In there I see tactics as - assumed access to inner state / spiritual state / other dimensions of knowing (defining reality nonfalsifiably) - weaponis

until it happens to you, you will think you are very careful, very responsible, very smart, very religious, very mature, very private, very etc.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 192

But if consciousness isolates, it also heals and consoles. In my own writing I am trying to say, among other things, "This is my consciousness, now do

For me, the great adventure in reading nonfiction is to follow, as I say, a really interesting, unpredictable mind struggling to entangle and disentan

What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next se

To me, the best writing should explore something uncomfortable, it should subvert an idea that other people are already comfortable believing.

You've been taught that in order to be happy, you need to • Chase goals • Accomplish things • Hit milestones Only to find that none of it really las

This is a field in which one is challenged to act; it is your actions alone that define you.

Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline,

Most people don’t benefit much from chatbots because what people lack is not good answers so much as good questions. It’s no longer enough to curate

“‘Help meet’ was never meant to be a title of servitude. In Hebrew it was written “ezer kenegdo” meaning a strength that stands face to face. The same

witchcraft is how you learn to manipulate energy through connection with nature. they want you to believe it’s demonic because you cannot be controlle

Anything that we playbook becomes more legible to AI. So we must burn the playbooks.This is the real Butlerian Jihad, not destroying the machines, but

@TheStalwart and the rest of my Claude Code for Absolute Dummies starter guide: https://t.co/OsinPgLyjV

The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That

Half of Silicon Valley talks about taste now the way sommelier hobbyists talk about terroir: with enormous confidence, zero productive capacity, and t

A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyte

A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyte

It made me think of Volant Lee, the great journalist of the Fifty-Second Street Network, who said that’s how you ought to look into a camera. If you f

I think the key to posting online / being seen online is not feeling responsible for anyone who’s not caught up on your lore. You won’t be able to sto

Not all questions seek answers, some seek journeys.

despair is the result of each earnest attempt to understand and vindicate human life. Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life

“Manifestation tries to bypass the work. Coherence makes the work unnecessary.” Manifestation doesn't work, coherence does

Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with

I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize th

I eventually learned to treat each solitary writing session at home the same way I treat a live performance. In other words, I learned to treat myself

In the end, the most important idea I gained from Jungian psycholog was the concept of "individuation." For Jung, once one has dealt with the neuroses

“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentmen

If you’re going to survive elegantly, you must not feel a compulsion to survive.

the change cycle doesn’t begin when we experience the minor course corrections of life, only when something forces us to let go of our identities. Thi

The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain. We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us

Eventually you develop an allergy against exhausting your life force with things you do not care about. Your body rejects it without explanation. Eve

“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” Wayne Dyer

Once we live the reality of abundance, there is an effortless flowing of giving and receiving. People who live according to these laws are found in al

“Giving is the secret of abundance.” Swami Sivananda

I think one of the big questions of this decade Is how do you become “post-algorithmic” While remaining economically viable

But the Heart Sutra mantra, being also a dharani, is not subject to such restrictions. It is not secret but accessible to all who have the good fortun

In the Chungnan Mountains south of Sian, I once met a Buddhist master who had founded four Buddhist colleges before finally retiring to spend her last

In this case, the mantra does not give rise to Prajnaparamita but becomes her womb and thus the source of the greatest of all magic, the appearance of

Chanting, flute or drum playing, and dancing in demilitarized patterns are ideally natural forms of yoga-meditation, because they silence the hypnotic

Chanting, flute or drum playing, and dancing in demilitarized patterns are ideally natural forms of yoga-meditation, because they silence the hypnotic

I think there's this idealized version of modern interactions where, especially in the context of startups, where there's this idea that you'll make s

invest in narrative infrastructure: From content → to storytelling, From messaging → to lore, From brand guidelines → to belief systems,From marketing

But these activities are all separate from the feelings needed to fully and sustainably participate: the courage, optimism, trust, love, intimacy, cur

No one sees your life in the way that you do.” Our work is not to see people’s possibilities for them, but rather to help them see their possibilities

To create something that others want to join and support, we have to remember a core tenet: communities function best and are most durable when they’r

In designing experiences, the cornerstone with which we start is the “who.” Who is this for? Who are they? What do they need? Where are they coming fr

The Power of a Positive No describes how to say No when it is vital to stand up and protect your core interests and values. It is not just about how t

Every time you say no to someone else you are also saying yes to yourself. Eventually you'll find that there is no difference between sharing or recei

Here are four areas where I am focusing my nos (and they are also messily interrelated): No to obligations—not saying yes to things out of guilt or sh

A friend asked a Busy Guy to lead a project, and instead of saying yes or rejecting it, the Busy Guy said: “I can’t commit to that, but I can commit t

Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle

the Buddha discovered what he called the Middle Way, a way not based on an aversion to the world, nor on attachment, but a way based on inclusion and

With this stage comes a deep yearning for wholeness—bringing together the ego and the deeper parts of the self; integrating mind, body, and soul; cult