Thomas Unterkircher
@tomchen
Thomas Unterkircher
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their
... See more“Though we live in a world made of gifts, we find ourselves harnessed to institutions and an economy that relentlessly asks, ‘What more can we take from the Earth?’ This worldview of unbridled exploitation is to my mind the greatest threat to the life that surrounds us. Even our definitions of sustainability revolve around trying to find the
... See morePeople don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected with you.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
What Is Love?
Key takeaways:
- The feeling of love is not a feeling, but an action.
- The main way to create love is to give what you want to get.
- When one person in a relationship starts to give less, the other person will take the ladder down until they are giving what they want to get.
Transcript:
Speaker 2
Definitely had to kind of come to terms with that
Not Lost • Not Lost Chat — How Do You Say “Love”?
They forgave each other without sharing the details of their betrayals. They would spend the rest of their lives atoning for those months when they had not only forsaken their marriage but given up hope. Each child became a consecration, further commitment to stay put and be happy. And they often were.
Angela Flournoy • The Turner House
It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world, but I've started to feel it in the last couple years. To fall in love with the world isn't to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is merely to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and
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