Thomas Unterkircher
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Thomas Unterkircher
Let yourself be exactly as you are. Ridiculous, magnificent, tender, utterly human. What is a practice even for, if it doesn't bring us into contact with that?
Jeff Warrensubstack.comEverything worth having lives on the other side of effort.
Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance.
The people who understand this most deeply are often the happiest, because they've made peace with the beautiful burden of nurturing. They know that the dishes exist because they've been eating good meals all week.... See more
Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance.
The people who understand this most deeply are often the happiest, because they've made peace with the beautiful burden of nurturing. They know that the dishes exist because they've been eating good meals all week.... See more
"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“Here’s the thing about marriage. We commit to sticking together for richer or poorer, through sickness and health and during good times and bad, assuming that the tough times are the stress test. But what if it’s the opposite? What if the hard times bring out our best and make us focus on what’s important, while the danger zone is when we grow so
... See moreMiya Lee • Stories That Changed Lives
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”?
People fall out of love when they lose faith in the story the other person is writing. You wake up one day and think: why am I trapped inside this narrative? I don’t even like your prose.