
#013 - labors of love

The trick is in the decision to wake up every morning and meet the world again with love. I have
Ann Patchett • These Precious Days: Essays

The two lines that resonate with my research are: “Instead of adapting to goodness, we celebrate goodness.” “We become greater participants in our lives as opposed to spectators.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
while this “work on self” challenges us to stretch ourselves beyond our comfort zones and confront things we’d rather stay asleep to, it is also a great adventure of the kind immortalized in epic poems and classic myths that can liberate our energies to live our lives in more peaceful, alive, authentic, and meaningful ways.